| German: Der geduldige Socrates | |
| Type: | Comic opera |
| Composer: | Georg Philipp Telemann |
| Image Upright: | 0.8 |
| Librettist: | Johann Ulrich von König |
| Language: | German |
| Translated Name: | The patient Socrates |
| Premiere Location: | Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg |
(TVWV 21:9, Hamburg 1721) is a comic German-language opera in three acts by Georg Philipp Telemann to a libretto by .
The opera was Telemann's first full length purely comic opera,[1] and was performed at the Oper am Gänsemarkt, while Reinhard Keiser was still running the opera.
The professional UK premiere was in 1974 by Kent Opera conducted by Roger Norrington, with April Cantelo, Thomas Lawlor and Linda Esther Gray among the cast.[2]