The Black Rover
The Black Rover is a melodramatic opera by Luscombe Searelle (1860-1907)
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Billed as "The Most Sensational Opera ever Produced". The melodrama involved a phantom ship, pirates, shipwreck, a slave revolt in Cuba, mistaken identity and love in peril.
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Performance history in South Africa
1899: First presented by Searelle in Durban. Its first London performance took place on Thursday 23 September 1890 at the Globe Theatre, where it ran for 40 nights.
Sources
Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
https://www.cphc.org.uk/print-networks-blog/2017/2/9/advertising-the-victorian-theatre
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