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Operas -
Title, date
and place of first performance and libretto The Maid of the Mill Pasticcio 3 Acts - Isaac Bickerstaffe/J. Fletcher/W. Rowley 31 Jan. 1765 Daphne and Amintor afterpiece, Pasticcio 1 Act Bickerstaffe after G de Saint-Foix/Susannah Maria Gibber 8 Oct. 1765 The Summer's Tale Pasticcio 3 Acts - Richard Cumberland 6 Dec. 1765 CG Harlequin Dr. Faustus Pantomime, afterpiece 1 Act - Henry Woodward 18 Nov. 1766 CG Rosamond afterpiece 1 Act - Joseph Addison 21 Apr. 1767 The Royal Garland afterpiece 1 Act - Bickerstaffe 10 Oct. 1768 Tom Jones Pasticcio 3 Acts - Joseph Reed/A. L. H. Poinsinet after Fielding 14 Jan. 1769 The Rape of Proserpine Pantomime, afterpiece 1 Act - L. Theobald/F. Tenducci 4 Nov. 1769 Amintas afterpiece, Pasticcio 3 Acts - F. Tenducci after Richard Rolt/Metastasio 15 Dec. 1769 The Servant Mistress afterpiece 2 Acts - Stephen Storace 16 June 1770 The Madman afterpiece, Pasticcio 1 Act - D. J. Piguenit 28 Aug. 1770 The Portrait afterpiece 3 Acts Georg Colman d. Ä. after L. Anseaume, Le Tableau parlant 22 Nov. 1770 Mother Shipton Pantomime, afterpiece 1 Act - Colman d. Ä. 26 Dec. 1770 The Magnet afterpiece 1 Act - D. Dubois 27 June 1771 The Cure for Dotage afterpiece 1 Act 3 Aug. 1771 Don Quixote afterpiece 1 Act - D. J. Piguenit after Cervantes 30 June 1774 The Weathercock afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts - T. Forrest 17 Oct. 1775 The Seraglio afterpiece 2 Acts - Ch. Dibdin/Edward Thompson 14 Nov. 1776 Lilliput afterpiece 1 Act - D. Garrick after J. Swift, Gulliver's Travels 15 May 1777 Polly ballad opera 3 Acts - J. Gay, rev. Colman d. Ä. 19 June 1777 A Fairy Tale afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts - D. Garrick after Shakespeare, rev. Colman d. Ä. 18 July 1777 The Sheep Shearing Pasticcio 3 Acts - Colman d. Ä. after Shakespeare 18 July 1777 April Day Opera 3 Acts - Kane O'Hara 22 Aug. 1777 The Spanish Barber comic opera 3 Acts, op. 17 - Colman d. Ä. after P.-A. Beaumarchais 30 Aug. 1777 Poor Vulcan afterpiece 2 Acts - Dibdin after Peter Antoine Motteux 4 Feb. 1778 The Gipsies afterpiece 2 Acts - Dibdin after Charles-Simon Favart, La Bohemienne 3 Aug. 1778 Summer Amusement, or An Adventure at Margate Pasticcio 3 Acts - Miles Peter Andrews/William Augustus Miles 1 July 1779 The Son in Law afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 14 - John O'Keeffe 14 Aug. 1779 Fire and Water afterpiece 2 Acts - Andrews 8 July 1780 The Wedding Night afterpiece, Pasticcio 1 Act James Cobb 12 Aug. 1780 The Genius of Nonsense Pantomime, Pasticcio 1 Act, op. 27 - Colman d. Ä. 2 Sept. 1780 The Dead Alive afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 18 - O'Keeffe after The Thousand and One Nights 16 June 1781 Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern Pasticcio 3 Acts - Andrews after Elisabeth Anspach, Lady Craven 9 July 1781 The Silver Tankard afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts - Lady Craven 18 July 1781 Hodge-podge afterpiece 1 Act - Colman d. Ä. 28 Aug. 1781 The Agreeable Surprise, or The Secret Enlarged afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 16 - O'Keeffe 4 Sept. 1781 The Banditti Pasticcio 3 Acts - O'Keeffe 28 Nov. 1781 The Positive Man comic opera 2 Acts - O'Keeffe 16 March 1782 Fatal Curiosity Tragödie 3 Acts - George Lillo, rev. Colman d. Ä. 16 March 1782 None so Blind as those who won't See afterpiece 2 Acts - Dibdin after Louis Dorvigny 2 July 1782 The Tobacco Box interlude - Colman d. Ä. 13 Aug. 1782 The Female Dramatist afterpiece 2 Acts - Colman d. Ä. 16 Aug. 1782 Harlequin Teague Pantomime, Pasticcio 1 Act - Colman d. Ä./O'Keeffe 17 Aug. 1782 The Birth Day, or The Prince of Arragon afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 21 - O'Keeffe, after Saint-Foix 12 Aug. 1783 Gretna Green afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts, op. 22 - C. Stuart/O'Keeffe 28 Aug. 1783 Two to One Opera 3 Acts - G. Colman d. J. 19 June 1784 Hunt the Slipper afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 26 - H. Knapp 21 Aug. 1784 Peeping Tom of Conventry afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts, op. 25 - O'Keeffe 6 Sept. 1784 The Beggar on Horseback comic opera 2 Acts - O'Keeffe 16 June 1785 Turk and No Turk comic opera 3 Acts, op. 28 - Colman d. J. 9 July 1785 Here and There and Everywhere Pantomime, afterpiece 1 Act - Carlo Antonio Delphini 31 Aug. 1785 The Siege of Curzola comic opera 3 Acts, op. 29 - O'Keeffe 12 Aug. 1786 Inkle and Yarico comic dialogue opera 3 Acts, op. 30 - Colman d. J. after R. Steele/R. Ligon 4 Aug. 1787 The Gnome Pantomime, afterpiece 2 Acts - Ralph Wewitzer/K. Invill 5 Aug. 1788 Ut Pictora Poesis!, or The Enraged Musician afterpiece 1 Act, op. 31 - Colman d. Ä. after William Hogarth 18 May 1789 The Battle of Hexham Opera 3 Acts, op. 32 - Colman d. J. after Shakespeare 11 Aug. 1789 New Spain, or Love in Mexico Opera 3 Acts, op. 33 - J. Scawen 16 July 1790 The Basket Maker afterpiece 2 Acts - O'Keeffe 4 Sept. 1790 The Surrender of Calais Opera 3 Acts, op. 33 - Colman d. J. 30 July 1791 The Enchanted Wood Opera 3 Acts, op. 35 - W. Francis after Shakespeare/T. Parnell 25 July 1792 The Mountaineers musical play 3 Acts, op. 34 - Colman d. J. after Cervantes, Don Quixote 3 Aug. 1793 The Children in the Wood afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 35 - Thomas Morton 1 Oct. 1793 Harlequin Peasant Pantomime, afterpiece 1 Act 26 Dec. 1793 Thomas and Sally afterpiece 2 Acts - Bickerstaffe 24 Feb. 1794 Auld Robin Gray afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts, op. 36 - S. J. Arnold 26 July 1794 How to be Happy comic opera 5 Acts - George Brewer 9 Aug. 1794 Rule Britannia afterpiece, Pasticcio 2 Acts - J. Roberts 18 Aug. 1794 Britain's Glory afterpiece, Pasticcio 1 Act - R. Benson 20 Aug. 1794 The Wedding Day comic opera 2 Acts - Elizabeth Inchbald 1 Nov. 1794 The Death of Captain Faulkner afterpiece, Pasticcio 1 Act - W. Pearce 6 May 1795 Zorinski musical play 3 Acts - Morton after Henry Brooke, Gustavus Vasa 20 June 1795 Who Pays the Reckoning? afterpiece 2 Acts - S. J. Arnold 16 July 1795 Love and Money afterpiece, Pasticcio 1 Act, op. 38 - Benson 29 Aug. 1795 Love and Madness! Tragikkomödie 5 Acts Francis Waldron, after Shakespeare/J. Fletcher, Two Noble Kinsmen 21 Sept. 1795 Bannian Day afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 39 - Brewer, after John C. Cross, The Apparition 11 June 1796 The Shipwreck afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 40 - S. J. Arnold 10 Dec. 1796 The Hovel afterpiece 2 Acts 23 May 1797 The Irish Legacy afterpiece 2 Acts - S. J. Arnold 26 June 1797 The Italian Monk Opera 3 Acts, op. 43 - James Boaden after Ann Radcliffe 15 Aug. 1797 Throw Physic to the Dogs! afterpiece 2 Acts - Harriet Lee 6 July 1798 Cambro-Britons Opera 3 Acts, op. 45 - Boaden 21 July 1798 False and True afterpiece 3 Acts, op. 46 - G. Moultrie 11 Aug. 1798 Hamlet Shakespeare Febr.-Apr. 1799 Obi, or Three-Finger'd Jack Pantomime, afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 48 - John Fawcett after B. Moseley 2 July 1800 The Review afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 53 - Colman d. J. after Lee/T. Dibdin 1 Sept. 1800 Virginia Opera 3 Acts - D. Plowden 30 Oct. 1800 The Veteran Tar afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 50 S. J. Arnold after G. Pigault-Lebrun, Le Petit Matelot 29 Jan. 1801 The Corsair Pantomime, afterpiece 2 Acts, op. 51 C. Farley after M. Lewis, The Castle Spectre 29 July 1801 The Sixty-third Letter afterpiece 2 Acts - W. C. Oulton 18 July 1802 Foul Deeds will Rise afterpiece 2 Acts - S. J. Arnold 1804 
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