Der Wildfang
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("The Trapping of Game") A comedy in three acts by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819).
Published in 1798;
Translated into English by William Dunlap and adapted as a comic opera in four acts under the title The Wild-Goose Chace (sic on the original printed edition, but listed as The Wild-Goose Chase by later critics and authors.) and performed in New York on 24 January 1800. Published there in 1800 by William Dunlap.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue
Der Wildfang. The Wild Goose Chace; a play in four acts and in prose , with songs by Augustus Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue and William Dunlap[1]
DiGaetani and Sirefman, 1994, Opera and the Golden West: The Past, Present, and Future of Opera in the U.S.A.[2]