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This is perhaps the most famous stage version and was written by by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and Eugène Scribe. It was first performed on 28 January, 1830 in the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and many times afterwards, in many languages. | This is perhaps the most famous stage version and was written by by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and Eugène Scribe. It was first performed on 28 January, 1830 in the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and many times afterwards, in many languages. | ||
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Fra Diavolo or Fra Diovolo is the name of a character who appears in a number of theatrical works. Often the name is included in the title of the play, or is used as the name of a play.
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The character Fra Diavolo
Fra Diavolo (lit. "Brother Devil") was the nickname given to a guerilla leader/brigand actually named Michele Pezza (1771–1806), and depending on the source, he was either an Italian soldier turned guerilla fighter and patriot, or he was a brigand who was made into a hero by his exploits against the French. Pezza figures prominently in Italian and French folk lore and fiction. He appears in several works of Alexandre Dumas for example, including The Last Cavalier, and Washington Irving's short story "The Inn at Terracina".
The plays about Fra Diavolo
Fra Diavolo, ou l’Hôtellerie de Terracine
This is perhaps the most famous stage version and was written by by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and Eugène Scribe. It was first performed on 28 January, 1830 in the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and many times afterwards, in many languages.
Fra Diovolo, or The Banditti of the Abrouzes by Dejean and Guerroluch
Fra Diovolo, or The Banditti of the Abrouzes was a "Grand Historical Pantomime" in two acts originally devised by a company referred to as "the Circus Theatre of Paris" (probably the Cirque des Champs-Elysées or the Cirque Olympique, both run by Louis Dejean[1]), to music by Guerroluch.
The performance dealt with the twenty-nine days' chase of the elusive guerilla leader/brigand Fra Diavolo (lit. "Brother Devil") by a company led by Colonel Hugo (the father of Victor Hugo) and his ultimate capture and execution.
Fra Diavolo, or The Beauty and the Brigands by Byron
Fra Diavolo, or The Beauty and the Brigands is a burlesque burletta by Henry James Byron (1835-1884)[]
Also called Beauty and the Brigands and the Fra Diavolo Travestie, it is based on Scriber and Auber's comic opera Fra Diavolo, ou l'Hotellêrie de Terracine It was first performed at The Strand Theatre, London on 5 April, 1858, revived on 10 September 1860. Published by T. H. Lacy in 1858.
Sources
Patrick Bridgwater. 2013. The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German PerspectiveAmsterdam: Ropdopi: pp 435-6.[2]
http://www.circopedia.org/Cirque_d'Hiver
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011609842
Facsimile version of the text by Lacy, Hathitrust Digital Library[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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