page_title: The Fortune Teller (operetta)
section_title: Musical numbers
hierarchical_section_title: The Fortune Teller (operetta) / Musical numbers
caption_attribution_description: English: Source: http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2004-11/thismonth/feature.asp Sheet music to "Gypsy Love Song" from the operetta The Fortune Teller, 1898
context_page_description: The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B. Smith. After a brief tryout in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances. It was revived on November 4, 1929 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre and ran for 16 performances.
  Herbert wrote his sixth operetta for prima donna Alice Nielsen and her newly formed Alice Nielsen Opera Company. Nielsen having earned widespread praise in The Serenade, requested and received not one but three roles in The Fortune Teller. The story is set in Hungary and involves Irma, an heiress from Budapest, who is studying for the ballet. Irma is in love with a young Hussar captain but is being forced to marry the silly Count Barezowski. When a gypsy fortune teller, Musette, arrives, she is mistaken for Irma, a case of mistaken identity that fosters many complications.
  Songs include the famous "Gypsy Love Song" and "Romany Life."
context_section_description: Act 1
  Overture
  Introduction and Opening ensemble
  Always Do as People Say You Should – Irma and Ladies Chorus
  Hungaria's Hussars – Captain Ladislas and Hussars
  Ho! Ye Townsmen – Sandor
  Romany Life – Musette, Sandor, Vaninka, Boris, Rafael and Chorus
  Czardas – Musette and Chorus
  Finale I
  Act 2
  Opening Chorus
  Signor Monsieur Moldoni – Fresco and Chorus
  The Serenade of All Nations – Musette, Count Berezowski, Fresco, Boris and Mixed Chorus
  Gypsy Love Song (Slumber On, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart) – Sandor, Musette and Chorus
  Only in the Play – Mlle. Pompom and Captain Ladislas
  Finale II
  Act 3
  Gypsy Jan – Sandor and Chorus
  The Power of the Human Eye – Boris and Count Berezowski
  The Lily and the Nightingale – Musette
  Finale III
caption: Sheet music
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