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<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;<a href="/index.php/The_Black_Rover" title="The Black Rover">The Black Rover</a>&#039;&#039; is a melodramatic opera by <a href="/index.php/Luscombe_Searelle" title="Luscombe Searelle">Luscombe Searelle</a> (1860-1907) ==The original text== Billed as &quot;The Most Sensational Opera ever Produced&quot;. The melodr...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>''[[The Black Rover]]'' is a melodramatic opera by [[Luscombe Searelle]] (1860-1907)<br /> <br /> ==The original text==<br /> <br /> Billed as &quot;The Most Sensational Opera ever Produced&quot;. The melodrama involved a phantom ship, pirates, shipwreck, a slave revolt in Cuba, mistaken identity and love in peril. <br /> <br /> ==Translations and adaptations==<br /> <br /> == Performance history in South Africa ==<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> == Sources ==<br /> <br /> Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).<br /> <br /> https://www.cphc.org.uk/print-networks-blog/2017/2/9/advertising-the-victorian-theatre<br /> <br /> Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]<br /> <br /> == Return to ==<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[Main Page]]</div>

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