The Count of Luxembourg

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The Count of Luxembourg is an operetta in two acts with English lyrics and libretto by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross, music by Franz Lehár, based on Lehár's three-act German operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg which had premiered in Vienna in 1909.

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Performance history in South Africa

1948: Presented by Johannesburg Operatic and Dramatic Society.

1949: Produced by Doreen Egan and presented by the Port Elizabeth Musical and Dramatic Society (Pemads) at The Port Elizabeth Opera House commencing on June 20, 1949, with a full company and orchestra. Starring Jeane Cooper as Juliette, Wilfred Lissack as a singer and the Grand Duke, Reginald Barsley as the Count of Luxembourg, Harold Davidson as Brissard with singing by Bessie Collett

Sources

Daily Advertiser, June 20, 1949.

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