The Stoned Guest (album)

The Stoned Guest
Studio album by
Released1970
LabelVanguard
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Report
from Hoople:
P. D. Q. Bach
on the Air

(1967)
The Stoned Guest
(1970)
The Wurst of
P. D. Q. Bach

(1971)

The Stoned Guest is "the premiere recording of the Half-Act Opera by P. D. Q. Bach", the pseudonym used by Peter Schickele for parodic works. It was released on Vanguard Records in 1970. The title is a play on Dargomyzhsky's opera The Stone Guest. The record is a pseudo-radio broadcast hosted by "Milton Host" (parodying Metropolitan Opera commentator Milton Cross) including an appearance by "Paul Henry Lung" (a play on Paul Henry Lang) as a contestant on the intermission game "Opera Whiz" hosted by Schickele.