Béatrice et Bénédict
Béatrice et Bénédict is an opéra comique in two acts by French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the French libretto himself, based in general outline on a subplot in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
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Original text
Adaptations and translations
Performance history in South Africa
1950: Presented by the South African College of Music, produced by Hedy Faller-Plaut and conducted by Erik Chisholm, with Nellie du Toit as Hero.
Sources
Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Stellenbosch.
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