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The Agreeable Surprise
Written byJohn O'Keeffe
Date premiered3 September 1781
Place premieredHaymarket Theatre
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy

The Agreeable Surprise is a 1781 comic opera in two acts, with music composed by Samuel Arnold and the libretto by John O'Keeffe. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (London), on 3 September 1781.[1]

It was one of the most performed comic operas in London in the last quarter of the 18th century.[2]

Lingo and Cowslip, painting by John Downman (1787)
  1. ^ White (1983), p. 48.
  2. ^ Burling (2000), p. 150–151.

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