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Henry Lytton as the Major-General (1919) Drawing from 1884 children's Pirates "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" (often referred to as the "Major-General's Song" or "Modern Major-General's Song") is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.
Major-General Stanley's song, "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" in Act 1 of The Pirates of Penzance (1879); the Lord Chancellor's "Nightmare song", "When you're lying awake" in Act 2 of Iolanthe (1882); the Sorcerer's song, "My Name is John Wellington Wells" in Act 1 of The Sorcerer (1877);
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley) [7] Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama) [5] Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin) [5]
George Grossmith as General Stanley, wearing Wolseley's trademark moustache. Pirates premiered on 31 December 1879 in New York and was an immediate hit. [20] On 2 January 1880, Sullivan wrote, in another letter to his mother from New York, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully funny in parts, and sometimes brilliant in dialogue – beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert ...
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