Love in a Camp
1786 British opera
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Written by | John O'Keeffe |
Date premiered | 17 February 1786 |
Place premiered | Covent Garden Theatre |
Original language | English |
Genre | Comedy |
Patrick in Prussia, or Love in a Camp is a 1786 comic opera with music by William Shield and a libretto by John O'Keeffe. An afterpiece, it was a sequel to the 1783 hit The Poor Soldier with the characters now serving in the Prussian army.[1]
The work in two acts was first performed on 17 February 1786 at the Covent Garden opera house, London.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Shaffer, Jason: Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
- White, Eric Walter: A Register of First Performances of English Operas (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1983)
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John O'Keeffe
- The Shamrock (1777)
- Tony Lumpkin in Town (1778)
- The Agreeable Surprise (1781)
- The Castle of Andalusia (1782)
- The Poor Soldier (1783)
- Omai (1785)
- Love in a Camp (1786)
- The Siege of Curzola (1786)
- The Farmer (1787)
- The Prisoner at Large (1788)
- The Toy (1789)
- Wild Oats (1791)
- The London Hermit (1793)
- The World in a Village (1793)
- Life's Vagaries (1795)
- The Doldrum (1796)
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