The Recruiting Serjeant is a burletta[1] by composer Charles Dibdin and playwright Isaac Bickerstaff. It premièred on 20 July 1770 at Ranelagh Gardens, London.[2]
- ^ Bickerstaffe, Isaac in The Thespian Dictionary: Or, Dramatic Biography of the Eighteenth Century, etc. (1802), printed by J. Cundee for T. Hurst. Digitised by Google and Harvard University. Accessed 29 August 2008. Pages unnumbered.
- ^ OperaGlass, Opera Composers D. Hosted by Stanford University, accessed on 29 August 2008. See also OperaGlass Notes for an explanation of the abbreviations.