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Moore was dissatisfied with the work and was reluctant about staging it at all. He refused to attend the first two performances before finally attending the third. He believed that many of the references would be too
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for the audience. He tried to alter this by adding some more populist additions, but he feared this sacrificed the integrity of the work.
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was published in London by J. Power (1811) and in New York by The Longworths (1812).
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It was only the second work for the stage that Moore wrote after
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named Lady Bab Blue and a series of mistaken identities follow.
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is an 1811 comic opera in three acts with a libretto by
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and music written in collaboration between Moore and
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