A Guest of Honor (opera)

A Guest of Honor (ISJ 54)[1] is the first opera created by celebrated ragtime composer Scott Joplin.

[3] Joplin is believed to have begun writing A Guest of Honor shortly after Washington's visit to Roosevelt's White House.

[3] In April 1903, an informal public presentation of the opera was reviewed by Monroe Rosenfeld of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

It is believed the score for A Guest of Honor was confiscated with Joplin's belongings, due to non-payment of his bills.

[7][1] The title of the opera, "A Guest of Honor," was used verbatim in an editorial dating to September 12, 1901, from the Indianapolis Freeman.