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''[[Fanchon oder das Leyermädel]]'' is German [[Singspiel]] ("ballad opera") by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765–1814)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Himmel]
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''[[Fanchon oder das Leyermädel]]'' is German [[Singspiel]] ("ballad opera") in three acts by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765–1814)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Himmel], with a libretto by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819)[]
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The work originally had the working title of ''[[Fanchon das Leyermaedchen]]'' and was called a "Lustspiel mit Gesang". It also hads the alternative title of ''[[Fanchon das Leyermädchen]]'' and was then styled as an "Oper(ette) nach dem französischen Vaudeville".
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Berlin (1804)
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Composed in 1804 and first performed in Berlin at the National Theatre on 5 May, 1804.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
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https://imslp.org/wiki/Fanchon_das_Leyerm%C3%A4dchen_(Himmel%2C_Friedrich_Heinrich)
  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Himmel
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Himmel

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Fanchon oder das Leyermädel is German Singspiel ("ballad opera") in three acts by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765–1814)[1], with a libretto by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819)[]

The work originally had the working title of Fanchon das Leyermaedchen and was called a "Lustspiel mit Gesang". It also hads the alternative title of Fanchon das Leyermädchen and was then styled as an "Oper(ette) nach dem französischen Vaudeville".

The original text

Composed in 1804 and first performed in Berlin at the National Theatre on 5 May, 1804.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

https://imslp.org/wiki/Fanchon_das_Leyerm%C3%A4dchen_(Himmel%2C_Friedrich_Heinrich)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Himmel

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 1932. (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.203-205

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