The Stoned Guest
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The Stoned Guest is a "half-act opera" by Peter Schickele in the satirical persona of P. D. Q. Bach.[1] The title is a play on the "stone guest" character in Don Giovanni by Mozart, as well as the opera The Stone Guest by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomïzhsky after the play by Pushkin. The work is a parody of classical opera. The opera appears on the 1970 album of the same name.
The loose story combines elements of toreador Escamillo. The orchestral accompaniment for Donna Ribalda's opening aria, "Let's face it—I'm lost", resembles the "Rex tremendae majestatis" from Mozart's Requiem.
At one point in the opera, the rival
Romantic narrative (as reflected in, e.g., Goethe's revision of the Faust legend) by revealing the tragic ending to have been a false ending and introducing deus ex machina
to generate a happy conclusion not warranted by the earlier plot.
References
- ^ Schickele, Peter. The Stoned Guest at the PDQ Bach website, accessed 2016 May 25
