The Yankee Consul, also known as the Lieutenant Commander, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred G. Robyn and a libretto by Henry Blossom.[1] The opera premiered in Boston on 21 September 1903 at the Tremont Theatre.[2] The premiere production was produced by Boston opera impresario Henry Wilson Savage, and starred Raymond Hitchcock as Abijah Booze.[2] The work was staged on Broadway the following year at the 41st Street Broadway Theatre where it ran for a total of 114 performances from February 22, 1904 through July 2, 1904.[3] The opera was adapted into a 1921 silent film of the same name.[4]

References

  1. John Franceschina (2018). "ROBYN, Alfred G[eorge]". Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923, Volume 3, Biographical and Critical Commentary - Alphabetical Listings from Edgar Stillman Kelley to Charles Zimmerman. BearManor Media.
  2. 1 2 ""THE YANKEE CONSUL"; Henry W. Savage Produces a New Comic Opera in Boston with Raymond Hitchcock as Star". The New York Times. September 22, 1903. p. 6.
  3. Dan Dietz (2022). "The Yankee Consul". The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538168943.
  4. American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-520-20969-9. Retrieved June 1, 2011.
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