Difference between revisions of "Isadora"
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Latest revision as of 14:31, 26 April 2018
Isadora is a comic opera in three acts by Luscombe Searelle (1853-1907)[1].
The title also found as Isidora.
Contents
The original text
First performed in 1885.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1887: Presented as Isidora by Luscombe Searelle and the Searelle Opera Company at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town as part of a popular six-month season of opera. Also toured to Port Elizabeth.
Sources
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 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: pp. 385
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