This is a list of the musical numbers. It's a bit difficult to imagine how they sound without a recording, or without the libretto in your hand, but for G&S fans, I hope it gives you some idea of the variety and demands of the piece.
Act 1
1.1 Through all the employments of life: Ruddigore – Oh, why am I moody and sad?
1.2 As sometimes it may happen: Mikado – I’ve got a little list
1.3 On the day that I was wedded – 1: Gondoliers – Duchess’ Song
1.4 Mrs Peachum's exit music: Gondoliers – Duchess’ Song
1.5 Virgins are like the fair flow’r: Mikado – Braid the raven hair
1.6 Our Polly is a sad slut!: Gondoliers – Duchess’ Song (reprise)
1.7 Can love be tempered by advice?: Mikado – the sun whose rays
1.8 Oh, Polly, you might have toyed: Mikado – Tit Willow
1.9 The prisoner comes: Yeomen – Funeral March
1.10 Were I laid on Greenland’s coast: Mikado – I am so proud
1.11 Now go, and leave me here: Mikado – alone and yet alive – refrain
1.12 The miser thus a shilling sees: Pirates – oh, is there not one maiden’s breast
1.13 Fill every glass, for wine inspires us: Pirates - a rollicking band of pirates we
1.14 Let us take the open road: Pinafore – we sail the ocean blue
1.15 Youth’s the season made for joy: Gondoliers – I am a courtier grave and serious
1.16 Away, away: Pirates – Away, away
Act 2
2.17 Entr'acte
2.18 If you give me your attention: Princess Ida – King Gama’s song
2.19 When you censure the age Iolanthe – Nightmare song
2.20 Why, how now madam Flirt?: Mikado - Flowers that bloom in the spring
2.21 No power on earth can e’er divide: Pirates – Hail poetry
2.22 He’s telling a terrible story: Pirates – Finale Act 1
2.23 Interlude: Pirates – ‘telling a terrible story’
2.24 My love is all madness and folly/sorry her lot: Sorcerer – my name is John Wellington Wells/ Pinafore – Sorry her lot
2.25 The flaws of our society: Pinafore – when I was a lad
2.26 In the days of my youth: Yeomen – when a wooer goes a-wooing
2.27 Cruel, cruel, cruel case!: Yeomen – strange adventure
2.28 Since laws were made for all degrees Pinafore - My friends, my leave of life
2.29 Ah, leave me not to pine alone: Pirates - Ah, leave me not to pine alone
2.30 Let me be hanged: Pirates - We triumph now
2.31 I, like the Turk, his doxies around: Mikado – With joyous shout