A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ballad Opera

BALLAD OPERA. [See English Opera, i. 488 b.] To the list of Ballad Operas there given the following may be added:—1731. Patie and Peggy; The Amours of Billingsgate; The Grub Street Opera; The Welsh Opera. 1738. The Disappointed Gallant, or, Buckram in Armour. 1740. The Preceptor, or, The Loves of Abelard and Heloise.

[ W. H. H. ]