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 : Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, in January by [[The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company]] , an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. The musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].
-Thursday, October 11, 1900; Performed by the [[Port Elizabeth Amateur Operatic Club]] at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]]. Directed by [[H B Binstead]].
+Thursday, October 11, 1900; Performed by the [[Port Elizabeth Amateur Operatic Club]] at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]]. Directed by [[H.B. Binstead]].
 -3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	[[Eastern Province Herald]], October 5, 1900.

	Cecil A. Smith and Glenn Litton. 1987. ''Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd''. Routledge (reprinted 2013)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=9efWAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Falka+a+comedy&source=bl&ots=iEzyLADTPE&sig=ACfU3U31XRNTebEjCEYz6eXhCjAh9LRApA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXjNSVmN7jAhVRTcAKHUDfD0UQ6AEwBnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Falka%20a%20comedy&f=false]		Cecil A. Smith and Glenn Litton. 1987. ''Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd''. Routledge (reprinted 2013)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=9efWAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Falka+a+comedy&source=bl&ots=iEzyLADTPE&sig=ACfU3U31XRNTebEjCEYz6eXhCjAh9LRApA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXjNSVmN7jAhVRTcAKHUDfD0UQ6AEwBnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Falka%20a%20comedy&f=false]

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	1890: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, in January by [[The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company]] , an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. The musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].		1890: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, in January by [[The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company]] , an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. The musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].
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		+	Thursday, October 11, 1900; Performed by the [[Port Elizabeth Amateur Operatic Club]] at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]]. Directed by [[H B Binstead]].

	1902-3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.		1902-3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, in January by [[The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company]] , an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. Musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].
+: [[Falka]], the comic opera, was staged at the [[Globe Theatre]] in Johannesburg. Produced by Mr Perkins of [[The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company]]. Starring [[Frank Wheeler]] as Governor Folback, [[Amy Fenton]] as Falka, the convent girl, [[R.S. Gregg]] as Falka's student lover, Mr Paxton as Boleslas, the brigand chief, [[Minnie Rayner]] as Edwige, the fiery Gipsey girl and sister of the brigand chief, Mr [[H Leighton]] as Tancred, nephew of Governor Folback, Miss [[E Bankhardt]] as Janotha. [[James Hyde]] was the musical director.
 -3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town in January by an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. Musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].
+: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, in January by [[The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company]] , an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. Musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].
 -3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

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 [[D.C. Boonzaier]]. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
-[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 413.
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 389-390, 413.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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−	[[D.C. Boonzaier]]. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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−	~~[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 389-390,~~

	Cecil A. Smith and Glenn Litton. 1987. ''Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd''. Routledge (reprinted 2013)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=9efWAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Falka+a+comedy&source=bl&ots=iEzyLADTPE&sig=ACfU3U31XRNTebEjCEYz6eXhCjAh9LRApA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXjNSVmN7jAhVRTcAKHUDfD0UQ6AEwBnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Falka%20a%20comedy&f=false]		Cecil A. Smith and Glenn Litton. 1987. ''Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd''. Routledge (reprinted 2013)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=9efWAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Falka+a+comedy&source=bl&ots=iEzyLADTPE&sig=ACfU3U31XRNTebEjCEYz6eXhCjAh9LRApA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXjNSVmN7jAhVRTcAKHUDfD0UQ6AEwBnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=Falka%20a%20comedy&f=false]

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		+	1890: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town in January by an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. Musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].

	1902-3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.		1902-3: Performed by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

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 ''[[Le Droit d'Aînesse]]'' ("The Birthright") is a French opéra bouffe[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_bouffe] in three acts by composer Francis Chassaigne (1847-1922)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Chassaigne] with a French libretto by Eugène Leterrier (1843-1884)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Leterrier] and Albert Vanloo (1846-1920)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Vanloo].
-(In French the title would normally be written ''[[Le droit d'aînesse]]''. The composer is also known as "François Chassaigne)
+(In French the title would normally be written ''[[Le droit d'aînesse]]''. The composer is also known as "François Chassaigne" or " Francisque Chassaigne".)
 ==The original text==