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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Soldier's Opera |
| Author | Ewing, Peter |
| Date | 1791 [?] |
| Licence Application Date | n.d. |
| First Performance Date | 1791 [?] |
| Document Type | Play |
| Library/Archive | The Huntington Library |
| Collection Name | John Larpent Plays |
| Reference | LA930 |
| Language | English; French |
| Document Description | A comic opera featuring a captain, a colonel, and a Frenchman. |
| Theme | Opera |
| Lord Chamberlain | Cecil, James (1st Marquess of Salisbury) |
| Examiner at time of Licence Application | Larpent, John |
| Composer | Dibdin, Charles |
| Genre | Comic Opera |
| Acts | Two |
| Keywords | courtship French military soldier marriage marine |
| Additional Information | Maunscript. Title-page states "Written by Captain P Ewing Marines The Music by Dibdin; MS is signed at end, Peter Ewing Capt: of Marines The 2d Day of April 1791." Compared to a later edition [1792], the printed version is longer than the manuscript. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: ...it seems doubtful whether it was not performed, although there is no manger's letter with the manuscript. |
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