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| − | The libretto was based on a one act play ''[[Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement]]'' by Prosper Merimee ()[], written in the 1829 and revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. | + | The story concerns two impoverished Peruvian street-singers, known as "Périchole" and "Piquillo", too poor to afford a marriage license, and a lecherous viceroy, Don Andrès de Ribeira, who wishes to make "La Périchole" his mistress. |
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| + | The libretto was based on a one act play ''[[Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement]]'' by Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e], written in the 1829 and revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français. | ||
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| + | Offenbach's opera was first performed, in a two-act version, on 6 October 1868 at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris. The three-act version opened at the same theater on 25 April 1874 and was revived there in 1877 with a new cast. | ||
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| + | It soon went on to become one of Offenbach’s most frequently performed operettas, being performed around the globe. For example, it was first seen in Brussels on 5 December 1868, at Pike's Opera House, New York, on 4 January 1869, in Vienna on 9 January 1869, in Stockholm on 6 February 1869, and in London on 27 June 1870 at the Princess's Theatre. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:57, 9 January 2021
La Périchole is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)[1], with a French libretto by Henri Meilhac (1830-1897)[2] and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)[3].
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The original text
The story concerns two impoverished Peruvian street-singers, known as "Périchole" and "Piquillo", too poor to afford a marriage license, and a lecherous viceroy, Don Andrès de Ribeira, who wishes to make "La Périchole" his mistress.
The libretto was based on a one act play Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)[4], written in the 1829 and revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français.
Offenbach's opera was first performed, in a two-act version, on 6 October 1868 at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris. The three-act version opened at the same theater on 25 April 1874 and was revived there in 1877 with a new cast.
It soon went on to become one of Offenbach’s most frequently performed operettas, being performed around the globe. For example, it was first seen in Brussels on 5 December 1868, at Pike's Opera House, New York, on 4 January 1869, in Vienna on 9 January 1869, in Stockholm on 6 February 1869, and in London on 27 June 1870 at the Princess's Theatre.
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Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_P%C3%A9richole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Meilhac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic_Hal%C3%A9vy
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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