'' The Yankee Consul'', also known as the ''Lieutenant Commander'', is a

comic opera Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...

in two acts with music by Alfred G. Robyn and a

libretto A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to th ...

Henry Blossom Henry Martyn Blossom Jr. (May 10, 1866 – March 23, 1919) was an American writer, playwright, novelist, opera librettist, and lyricist. He first gained wide attention for his second novel, '' Checkers: A Hard Luck Story'' (1896), which was succes ...

. The opera premiered in Boston on 21 September 1903 at the Tremont Theatre. The premiere production was produced by Boston opera impresario Henry Wilson Savage, and starred Raymond Hitchcock as Abijah Booze. 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. The opera was adapted into a 1921 silent film of the same name.

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