Les Cloches de Corneville
Les Cloches de Corneville ("The bells of Corneville") is an opera comique[1] in three acts, composed by Robert Planquette with a libretto by Louis Clairville and Charles Gabet.
Also known as The Chimes of Normandy in English.
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The original text
Premiére Date: 26 March 1730, in the Théâtre de la Foire Saint-Germain: Paris
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1884-5 season: Performed (with the original French title) by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_cloches_de_Corneville
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 380
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