page_title: The Duchess of Dantzic
section_title: Musical numbers
hierarchical_section_title: The Duchess of Dantzic / Musical numbers
caption_attribution_description: English: Raising a glass, Billie Burke poses as the servant girl in the operetta "The Dutchess of Dantzic" which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre in London, England.
context_page_description: The Duchess of Dantzic is a comic opera in three acts, set in Paris, with music by Ivan Caryll and a book and lyrics by Henry Hamilton, based on the play Madame Sans-Gêne by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau. Additional lyrics by Adrian Ross. The story concerns Napoleon I and a laundress, Catherine Üpscher, who marries Marshal Lefebvre and becomes a Duchess.
  The opera was first produced in London at the Lyric Theatre in 1903 and ran for 236 performances. Subsequently, it enjoyed a successful New York production at Daly's Theatre and other productions around the world, and was revived in London and performed regularly by amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, until the 1950s.
context_section_description: Act 1
  Here you may gaze upon a bevy of beauty – Lisette, Jacqueline, Mathilde and Laundresses
  When the trumpets sound "To arms" – Soldiers
  Wine of France! – Sergeant Francoise Lefebvre and All
  Catherine Upscher, licensed laundress – Catherine Üpscher
  Are you wanting silk or satin? – Papillon and Chorus
  Fricassée (dance)
  My Sabots – Catherine
  Do You Remember? – Francoise and Catherine
  Dear Francois – Catherine Upscher, Sergeant Francoise Lefebvre, Papillon and Phillipe
  Forgive me, pray – Phillipe  (New York production only)
  Finale Act I
  The tyrant is shaken – Soldiers, Mob, Laundresses and Chorus
  Aha, my boy, I give you joy – Captain Reignier
  Brothers in Arms – Catherine
  Then haste to the wedding – All
  Act 2
  Old days have come again – Reignier, Pauline, Caroline Murat, Ladies and Courtiers
  When lurid terror ruled the land – Adhémar
  His Majesty orders that ladies at court – Ensemble
  You know the legend olden – Adhémar and Renée de Saint Mezard
  La Petit Caporal (Lyrics by Ross) – Renée and Chorus
  Here in big boxes we bear – Chorus
  I'm the Milliner Monarch of Paris – Papillon and Chorus
  First right, then left – Catherine and Papillon, with Chorus
  Vivat! Vivat! Imperator Salve – Entrance of Napoleon I
  La Midinette – Lisette and Chorus (New York production only)
  Finale Act II: Assent to no divorce I can – Catherine, Francois, Napoleon I, Adhemar and Courtiers
  Act 3
  Mirror, in thy glass we scan – Catherine
  A real good cry together – Catherine, Renée and Babette
  Though many a happy year hath flown – Catherine and Lefebvre
  Once the lips the Bourbon owned – Ladies and Courtiers
  Menuet
  The Legend Olden – Catherine and Napoleon I
  Finale Act III: Gavotte de Vestris – All
caption: Billie Burke as a servant girl
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