The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern

The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern
Pasticcio by Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold
LibrettistMiles Peter Andrews
LanguageEnglish
Based onModern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns: A Tale for Christmas 1779
by Elizabeth Craven (1779)
Premiere
9 July 1781 (1781-07-09)
Little Theatre in the Haymarket, London

The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern is an 18th-century English language comic opera pasticcio with music by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by Miles Peter Andrews. The opera consists of a prologue by Frederick Pilon, three acts, and an epilogue by Edward Topham. The first performance was at the Little Theatre in Haymarket, London, in July 1781. Baron "played during three nights of tumultuous disapprobation, and [was] then withdrawn".

The opera was based on a novel by Elizabeth Craven, Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns: A Tale for Christmas 1779. Craven's novel, published in 1779, was dedicated to Horace Walpole.

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