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| + | is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:53, 2 June 2021
La Somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un Nouveau Seigneur is a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer, with music composed by Ferdinand Hérold.
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The original text
Produced in 1827, choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer with music and quite popular in Paris, though the text does not appear to have been published.
is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.
Translations and adaptations
Despite being unpublished, the Scribe work inspired many other works, including:
La Sonnambula, or The Sleepwalker by Vincenzo Bellini
A well-known Italian opera (or also described as drama with music) La Sonnambula, or The Sleepwalker[1]
The Somnambulist by William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)[2]
Called "A Dramatic Entertainment", it is a burlesque based on Scribe's scenario for the original ballet-pantomime. of play in two acts, it is which is also found as The Somnambulist, or The Phantom of the Village, La Somnambula or The Sleep-Walker, or La Somnambula)
Moncrieff's text was published as The Somnabulist in Issue 224 of Dicks' Standard Plays. Published as The Somnambulist, or The Phantom of the Village by J. Cumberland, 1899
Performance history in South Africa
1857: Performed by the Boscawen Amateurs in Simonstown on 28 December, with Who Speaks First? (Dance) as a benefit evening for the Indian Sufferers Relief Fund.
1857: What appears to have been La Somnambula or The Sleep-Walker (by Bellini and Romani) was performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 8 December, with The Mistress of the Mill (Moncrieff) as afterpiece.
1862: Performed often (as La Somnambula) by the Christy Minstrels, during their three-month long tour of the Cape Province. The company was led by Mr Melvyn, with Mr Norton, Mr Rainford and Joe Brown. The director of the orchestra was Mr Stewart
1869: Performed as La Somnambula in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town by the Miranda-Harper Company.
1875: Performed as La Somnambula in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town by Disney Roebuck and his company, with Christmas Eve, or The Duel in the Snow (Fitzball)
1901: The Somnabulist performed in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, by Morris Waxman and his Hebrew Artistes
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_somnambule,_ou_L%27arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_nouveau_seigneur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_sonnambula
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Somnambulist.html?id=DkYSHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
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. 140, 408
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