The Castle of Andalusia
The Castle of Andalusia is a 1782 comic opera by John O'Keeffe with music by Samuel Arnold. It was a heavily rewritten version of the 1781 work The Banditti which had been a failure.[1]
The original run saw the work performed thirty nine times and it was revived on several occasions until 1817.[2] 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 several times appearing in the role of Spado.[3]
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Bibliography
- Fenner, Theodore. Opera in London: Views of the Press, 1785-1830. Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
- Kelly, Ronan. Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore. Penguin Books, 2009.