De Batailje van Waterloo, of La Belle Alliance

De Batailje van Waterloo, of La Belle Alliance ("The battle of Waterloo, or The good alliance") was a "Groot Concert" ("Great Concert"), by an anonymous author/composer.

The original text
No other reference is found to a performance by this name, so it may possibly have been a purely a musical event, presented by a local orchestra. However the term concert (konsert) sometimes also refers to events including theatrical presentations, in South African Dutch and Afrikaans usage.

Performance history in South Africa
1823: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 18 June 1823 by Tot Nut en Vermaak as afterpiece to Makin, of De Ontdekking van Madera (Barbaz).

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