The Castle of Andalusia

The Castle of Andalusia
The Castle of Andalusia
	John Braham as Don Alphonso, 1817
Written by	John O'Keeffe
Date premiered	2 November 1782
Place premiered	Covent Garden Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy

The Castle of Andalusia is a 1782 comic opera by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by John O'Keeffe. It was a heavily rewritten version of the 1781 work The Banditti, which had been a failure.^[1]

After its first performance on 2 November 1782,^[2] the original run saw the work performed thirty-nine times, and it was revived on several occasions until 1817.^[3] It became a popular play for amateur dramatics and was performed by the Kilkenny players, including many of the elite, with the writer Thomas Moore appearing several times in the role of Spado.^[4]

References

^ Fenner (1994), p. 388.
^ White (1983), p. 48.
^ Fenner (1994), p. 388.
^ Kelly (2009), p. 173.

Bibliography

Fenner, Theodore: Opera in London: Views of the Press, 1785-1830 (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994)
Kelly, Ronan: Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore (London: Penguin Books, 2009)
White, Eric Walter: A Register of First Performances of English Operas (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1983)

External links

The Castle of Andalusia at Faded Page (Canada)

[1] Fenner (1994), p. 388.

[2] White (1983), p. 48.

[3] Fenner (1994), p. 388.

[4] Kelly (2009), p. 173.

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