The Siege of Curzola

The Siege of Curzola
Written by	John O'Keeffe
Date premiered	12 August 1786
Place premiered	Haymarket Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy

The Siege of Curzola is a 1786 comic opera with music by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by the Irish writer John O'Keeffe. It is set in 1571 during the Ottoman siege of Curzola at the time of the Battle of Lepanto.^[1]

It was staged at the Haymarket Theatre in London. The original cast included John Edwin, John Bannister and Lydia Webb. In following years it was reduced to a shorter two-act afterpiece.

• Worrall, David. Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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John O'Keeffe

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