Difference between revisions of "Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War"
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Also found simply as '''''[[The Child of the Regiment]]''''' | Also found simply as '''''[[The Child of the Regiment]]''''' | ||
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An adaptation from ''[[La Fille du Regiment]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment] (''[[La Figlia del Reggimento]]''), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), with a French libretto by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Jean François Alfred Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse. | An adaptation from ''[[La Fille du Regiment]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment] (''[[La Figlia del Reggimento]]''), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), with a French libretto by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Jean François Alfred Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse. | ||
Buckstone based his work on the French version and his play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in March, 1844, and published in London by [[T.H. Lacy]], 1856. | Buckstone based his work on the French version and his play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in March, 1844, and published in London by [[T.H. Lacy]], 1856. | ||
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1860: Performed early in the year as ''[[The Child of the Regiment]]'' in the [[Cabinet Theatre]], Cape Town, by the company brought together by [[Charles Fraser]], with [[Annie Rowlands]] as one of the cast. | 1860: Performed early in the year as ''[[The Child of the Regiment]]'' in the [[Cabinet Theatre]], Cape Town, by the company brought together by [[Charles Fraser]], with [[Annie Rowlands]] as one of the cast. | ||
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Facsimile version of the 1856 text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://archive.org/details/josephinechildof00buck/page/n1] | Facsimile version of the 1856 text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://archive.org/details/josephinechildof00buck/page/n1] | ||
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+ | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 127-8, | ||
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Revision as of 06:00, 20 December 2018
Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War is a musical comedy, in two acts, by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1]
Also found simply as The Child of the Regiment
Contents
The original text
An adaptation from La Fille du Regiment[2] (La Figlia del Reggimento), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), with a French libretto by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Jean François Alfred Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.
Buckstone based his work on the French version and his play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in March, 1844, and published in London by T.H. Lacy, 1856.
Translations and adaptations
Performances in South Africa
1860: Performed early in the year as The Child of the Regiment in the Cabinet Theatre, Cape Town, by the company brought together by Charles Fraser, with Annie Rowlands as one of the cast.
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1856 text, The Internet Archive[3]
Leonard R.N. Ashley. 1983. "Buckstone, John Baldwin" in The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel. Macmillan International Higher Education: pp.62-5[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone
The London Illustrated News, 9 March 1844, p. 155[5]
Gaetano Donizetti. Donizetti's Opera, "La Fille Du Regiment", Italian and English texts, O. Ditson & Company, 1859 [6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 127-8,
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Return to
Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
Return to The ESAT Entries
Return to Main Page