Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines is an opera in three acts by Jack Beeson written in 1975 to a libretto by Sheldon Harnick after the 1901 play of the same name by Clyde Fitch.
The world premiere was September 20, 1975, at the Lyric Theater, Kansas City, Missouri directed and choreographed by Jack Eddleman and conducted by Russell Patterson.
[2] Jonathan Jinks and his friends Salty Sam and Charlie go to welcome opera star Aurelia Trentoni.
Charlie, presenting the IOU, claims Jinks is a fortune hunter who has wagered he would marry Aurelia.
Aurelia, playing the dying Violetta for the second time that evening, explains that Jinks was helping her to survive a recurrence of an old lung complaint.