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==Synopsis==

==Synopsis==

''Setting: The castle of Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern, near [[Göttingen]].''{{sfn|Griffel|2013|p=38}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Morrow|first=Laura|chapter=Miles Peter Andrews|title=Restoration and Late Eighteenth-Century Dramatists, Third Series|series=Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 89|editor-last1=Backscheider|editor-first1=Paula R.|location=Detroit|publisher=Gale Research|year=1989|ISBN=0810345676|pages=3–11, at 9|url=https://archive.org/details/restorationeight00paul/page/9/mode/1up|access-date=July 6, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=An Account of the New Musical Comedy Called ''The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern'', Performed for the First Time at the Haymarket Theatre, on Monday, July 9|pages=94–96, at 95|magazine=The Edinburgh Magazine, or, Literary Amusement|location=Edinburgh|publisher=[[Walter Ruddiman]]|volume=53|date=July 26, 1781|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_edinburgh-weekly-magazine_1781-07-26_53/mode/1up|access-date=July 7, 2025|author=Edinburgh Magazine}}</ref>

''Setting: The castle of Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern, near [[Göttingen]].''{{sfn|Griffel|2013|p=38}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Morrow|first=Laura|chapter=Miles Peter Andrews|title=Restoration and Late Eighteenth-Century Dramatists, Third Series|series=[[Dictionary of Literary Biography]], vol. 89|editor-last1=Backscheider|editor-first1=Paula R.|location=Detroit|publisher=Gale Research|year=1989|ISBN=0810345676|pages=3–11, at 9|url=https://archive.org/details/restorationeight00paul/page/9/mode/1up|access-date=July 6, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=An Account of the New Musical Comedy Called ''The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern'', Performed for the First Time at the Haymarket Theatre, on Monday, July 9|pages=94–96, at 95|magazine=The Edinburgh Magazine, or, Literary Amusement|location=Edinburgh|publisher=[[Walter Ruddiman]]|volume=53|date=July 26, 1781|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_edinburgh-weekly-magazine_1781-07-26_53/mode/1up|access-date=July 7, 2025|author=Edinburgh Magazine}}</ref>

The baron, whose name is not mentioned in the opera, has a daughter named Cecil. She is in love with a Dutch soldier, Franzel Van Botherham. Franzl's father, Mynheer Van Botherham, arrives with his wife to foreclose the mortgage on the baron's castle. The baron speaks constantly of his ancestors, whose pictures fill the walls of his castle.

The baron, whose name is not mentioned in the opera, has a daughter named Cecil. She is in love with a Dutch soldier, Franzel Van Botherham. Franzl's father, Mynheer Van Botherham, arrives with his wife to foreclose the mortgage on the baron's castle. The baron speaks constantly of his ancestors, whose pictures fill the walls of his castle.