The Stoned Guest (album)

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The Stoned Guest
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1970
Label	Vanguard

The Stoned Guest is "the premiere recording of the Half-Act Opera by P. D. Q. Bach". It was released on Vanguard Records in 1970.

[edit] Performers

• Entire fiasco under the supervision of Professor Peter Schickele
• The Orchestra of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople Heavy Opera Company under the direction of John Nelson
• Marlene Kleinman, mezzanine soprano (Donna Ribalda, a high-born lady of the lowlands)
• Lorna Haywood, off-coloratura (Carmen Ghia, a woman of ailing repute)
• John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor (Don Octave, an itinerant nobleman)
• Bernice, houndentenor (Dog)
• Will Jordan as Milton Host
• Bill Macy as Paul Henry Lung
• Amateur Musica Antiqua of Hoople

[edit] Track listing

1. Introduction
2. Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest, Part One (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Overture
• Aria: "Let's face it - I'm lost"
• Recitative: "Boy!"
• Aria: "Now is the season"
• Recitative: "Gesundheit!"
• Duet: "Woe"
• Recitative: "Hark!"
• Aria: "Look at me"
• Recitative: "That's the end"
• Trio: "I'm sure I'd be"

3. Intermission Feature: Opera Quiz
4. Plot Synopsis
5. Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest, Completion (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Recitative: "I hate to interrupt"
• Quartet: "Don Octave"
• Finale: "O saviour"

Announcement

6. Two Madrigals from The Triumphs of Thusnelda (P.D.Q. Bach)

• "The Queen to me a royal pain doth give"
• "My bonnie lass she smelleth"

[edit] Source

P.D.Q. Bach: The Stoned Guest

v • d • e P. D. Q. Bach see also Peter Schickele Albums An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach (1965) • An Hysteric Return (1966) • Report From Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach On The Air (1967) • The Stoned Guest (1970) • The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach (1974) • Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977) • The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1978) • Black Forest Bluegrass (1979) • Liebeslieder Polkas (1980) • Music You Can’t Get Out Of Your Head (1982) • A Little Nightmare Music (1983) • 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989) • Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990) • WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991) • Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992) • Two Pianos Are Better Than One (1994) • The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard (1995) • The Dreaded P. D. Q. Bach Collection (1996) • The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology (1998) The Jekyll and Hyde Tour (2007) Videos/DVDs The Abduction of Figaro (1984) • P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006) Books The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach, 1807 – 1742? (1976) by Prof. Peter Schickele