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Revision as of 06:43, 28 April 2020
Olivette is a comic opera in three acts by Henry Brougham Farnie (1836-1889)[] and Edmond Audran (1842-1901)[].
Contents
The original text
Adapted from the French of Henri Chivot (1830-1897)[] and Alfred Duru (1829-1889)[], The dialogue and business translated and adapted by "T. L."
London Opera Comique Company, Williamson, Garner & Musgrove's Royal Opera Company
Miller and Sayers, 1889
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1882-3: Performed for the first time in South Africa in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Mabel Hayes and her company, with vocal work supervised by Henry Harper, as part of a season that not only included the premieres of two more comic operas - Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan) and Manteaux Noirs (Parke, Paulton & Bucalossi) - but also a range of plays.
Sources
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8997671?selectedversion=NBD24314579
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. 375, 389-390, 410-411,
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