The Stoned Guest (album)

The Stoned Guest
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1970
Label	Vanguard
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air (1967) The Stoned Guest (1970) The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1971)

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," 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

1. Introduction
2. Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest, 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 Whiz
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"

Sources

P.D.Q. Bach: The Stoned Guest