TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - legal profession
KW - jailbreaks
KW - Jack Biddle (1872-1902)
KW - Ed Biddle (1876-1902)
KW - Kate Soffel (1867-1909)
KW - jail wardens
KW - Protestants
AU - Jeremy Beck
AB - An operatic incardination of the saga of Ed and Jack Biddle, who overpowered victims with chloroform before robbing them. The Biddles were convicted and sentenced to hang before the warden’s wife, Kate Soffel, helped them escape from the Allegheny County Jail. 
C1 - <p>1901-2</p>
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Mt. Washington; Downtown; Allegheny County Jail (1886); Allegheny County Courthouse; Greenfield; Calvary Catholic Cemetery; North Side; Marshall-Shadeland; Western Penitentiary
C4 - Biographical; Mystery; Thriller; Romance
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - The author identified this publication as a lyric opera.

<em>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em> named the opera a Pittsburgh Top Ten Cultural Event in 2001.
N2 - An operatic incardination of the saga of Ed and Jack Biddle, who overpowered victims with chloroform before robbing them. The Biddles were convicted and sentenced to hang before the warden’s wife, Kate Soffel, helped them escape from the Allegheny County Jail. 
PY - 2001
RN - Jeremy Beck (1960— ) is a composer and attorney who lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
TI - The Biddle Boys and Mrs. Soffel
ER -