Comic opera.


Libretto by

Isaac BICKERSTAFF


Music by

Thomas Augustine ARNE


First performance: 8 December 1762, London, Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Description, name
[sex]		 Voice type
[first performer, sex]		 

Men

Sir William

Meadows   [ ♂ ]

  

other
[ Collins ]

  

Young Meadows

  [ ♂ ]

  

tenor
[ George Mattocks,  ♂ ]

  

Justice Woodcock

  [ ♂ ]

  

other
[ Edward Shuter ]

  

Hawthorn

  [ ♂ ]

  

tenor
[ John Beard,  ♂ ]

  

Eustace

  [ ♂ ]

  

tenor
[ Michael Dyer,  ♂ ]

  

Hodge

  [ ♂ ]

  

tenor
[ John Dunstall,  ♂ ]

  

Women

Rossetta

  [ ♀ ]

  

soprano
[ Charlotte Brent,  ♀ ]

  

Lucinda

  [ ♀ ]

  

soprano
[ Isabella Mattocks Hallam,  ♀ ]

  

Mrs. Deborah

Woodcock   [ ♀ ]

  

other
[ Walker ]

  

Margery

  [ ♀ ]

  

soprano
[ Cecilia Davies,  ♀ ]

  


Country men, Country women, Servants, ecc.


 


A village.
 

Act the first Act the second Act the third

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