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''[[Manteaux Noirs]]'' ("The black mantles") is a comic opera in three acts by Farnie, with music by .
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Also known as '''''[[The Black Mantles]]'''''
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
First performed at the Avenue Theatre, London on 3 June 1882. 
 
 
 
The vocal score published as ''[[Manteaux Noirs]]'' in London by Cramer and Company, 1882, and as  '''''[[The Black Mantles]]''''' in Boston and Chicago by White, Smith and Company, ca.1886.
 
 
 
==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]]'' (Paulton) - but also a range of plays. 
 
 
 
==Sources==
 
 
 
 
 
Copy of the programme for the first London production[https://picclick.co.uk/1882-Bucalossis-Comic-Opera-Manteaux-Noirs-Avenue-Theatre-283679323779.html#&gid=1&pid=1]
 
 
 
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1583955
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the vocal score for ''[[The Black Mantles]]'', [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015055468394&view=1up&seq=7]
 
 
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|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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