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As ''[[Giralda,  or The Invisible Husband]]'', adapted as a comic drama in three acts, by Henry Welstead and first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, on Thursday, September 12, 1850. Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1850.
 
As ''[[Giralda,  or The Invisible Husband]]'', adapted as a comic drama in three acts, by Henry Welstead and first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, on Thursday, September 12, 1850. Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1850.
  
As  ''[[Giralda, or the Miller's Wife]]'' adapted by Dion Boucicault in 1850.
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As  ''[[Giralda, or the Miller's Wife]]'' adapted by Dion Boucicault ()[] in 1850.
  
 
As ''[[Giralda, or Which Is My Husband?]]''
 
As ''[[Giralda, or Which Is My Husband?]]''
  
 
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Translated into German as ''[[Giralda, oder Die neue Psyche]]'' by W. Friedrich (ca. 1820-1879)[].
Translated into Gemran as ''[[Giralda, oder Die neue Psyche]]'' by W. Friedrich (ca. 1820-1879)[].  
 
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:27, 10 February 2020

Giralda, ou La Nouvelle Psyché ("Giralda, or the new Psyche") is an opéra comique[1] in three acts by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[2], with music by Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)[3].

The original text

The French piece had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique theatre, Paris, on 20 July 1850.


Translations and adaptations

It was simultaniously presented in English in London in three versions:

As Giralda, or The Invisible Husband, adapted as a comic drama in three acts, by Henry Welstead and first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, on Thursday, September 12, 1850. Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1850.

As Giralda, or the Miller's Wife adapted by Dion Boucicault ()[] in 1850.

As Giralda, or Which Is My Husband?

Translated into German as Giralda, oder Die neue Psyche by W. Friedrich (ca. 1820-1879)[].

Performance history in South Africa

1861: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

Facsimile version of the Welstead text of 1850, Warwick Digital Collections [4]

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

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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