Quite an Adventure

Quite an Adventure is a one-act comic opera by Edward Solomon with a libretto by Frank Desprez.

The fashion in the late Victorian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers such as Quite an Adventure.

[3] The London premiere was at the Olympic Theatre on 7 September 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn, as a companion piece for Solomon's operetta Claude Duval.

[5] D'Oyly Carte again toured the piece in tandem with Patience in 1881,[6] and with Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance in 1882,[7] and 1883.

[9][10] A copy of the vocal score (published in 1882 by Chappell & Co.), but no printed libretto, is found in British Library.