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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1890: Performed as ''[[Pepita]]'' 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]].
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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]]. Musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:41, 10 December 2019

La Princesse des Canaries is a comic opera, with a libretto by Chivot and Durn, and music by C. Lecocq.

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Adapted as Pepita

Performance history in South Africa

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. Musical direction was by James Hyde.

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. 389-390,

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