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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 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[4] by Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)[5], 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
1887: Performed as La Périchole by the Searelle Opera Company in the Opera House, Cape Town, under the management of the Wheeler Brothers, forming part of a repertoire of more than 14 operatic works over a period of eight months.
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
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Carrosse_du_Saint-Sacrement
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e
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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