The Stoned Guest (album)

''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. The title is a play on Dargomyzhsky's opera '' The Stone Guest''. The record is a pseudo-radio broadcast hosted by "Milton Host" (parodying Metropolitan Opera commentator Milton Cross) including an appearance by "Paul Henry Lung" (a play on Paul Henry Lang) as a contestant on the intermission game "Opera Whiz" hosted by Schickele.

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

Track listing

*Introduction
*Half-Act Opera: ''The Stoned Guest, S. 86 proof'', Part One
**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"
*Intermission Feature: Opera Whiz
*Plot Synopsis
*Half-Act Opera: ''The Stoned Guest, S. 86 proof'', Completion
**Recitative: "I hate to interrupt"
**Quartet: "Don Octave"
**Finale: "O saviour"
*Announcement
*Two Madrigals from ''The Triumphs of Thusnelda, S. 1601''
**"The Queen to me a royal pain doth give"
**"My bonnie lass she smelleth"

Sources

P.D.Q. Bach: The Stoned Guest

P. D. Q. Bach albums
1970 albums
Works based on the Don Juan legend
Vanguard Records albums
1970s comedy albums

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