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John O'Keefe and William Shield
The Poor Soldier (1783)
Edited by William Brasmer and William Osborne


A 6	ISBN 0-89579-103-X	(1978) xiii+82 pp.	$36.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-103-0 (13-digit)

18 lilting airs and a melodious overture complement the action in The Poor Soldier, a comic opera by John O'Keefe and William Shield that was the most popular afterpiece in the late eighteenth-century theater. This newly edited version is based on five scores of the period and 14 libbretti. The Poor Soldier will delight modern audiences as much as it did George Washington.

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