The Stoned Guest (album)
Encyclopedia
The Stoned Guest is "the premiere recording of the Half-Act Opera
by P. D. Q. Bach
", the pseudonym used by Peter Schickele
for parodic works. It was released on Vanguard Records
in 1970.
2. Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest
, Part One (P.D.Q. Bach)
3. Intermission Feature: Opera Quiz
4. Plot Synopsis
5. Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest, Completion (P.D.Q. Bach)
6. Two Madrigals from The Triumphs of Thusnelda (P.D.Q. Bach)
The Stoned Guest
This musical work, while touted as "P. D. Q. Bach's Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest," is actually the work of Peter Schickele. The title is a play on the subtitle of Don Giovanni by Mozart, "The Stone Guest", as well as the opera The Stone Guest by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomïzhsky...
by P. D. Q. Bach
P. D. Q. Bach
P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family...
", the pseudonym used by Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele
Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...
for parodic works. It was released on Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
in 1970.
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 MacyBill MacyBill Macy is an American television and stage actor.Macy was born in Revere, Massachusetts, to Mollie and Michael Garber, a manufacturer...
as Paul Henry Lung - Amateur Musica Antiqua of Hoople
Track listing
1. Introduction2. Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest
The Stoned Guest
This musical work, while touted as "P. D. Q. Bach's Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest," is actually the work of Peter Schickele. The title is a play on the subtitle of Don Giovanni by Mozart, "The Stone Guest", as well as the opera The Stone Guest by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomïzhsky...
, 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"