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| − | Called "A Dramatic Entertainment", it is in fact in a [[burlesque]] based on ''[[La Sonnambula]]'' ("The Sleepwalker") an opera ''semiseria'' in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani, in turn based on ''[[La Somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un Nouveau Seigneur]]'', a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer | + | Called "A Dramatic Entertainment", it is in fact in a [[burlesque]] based on ''[[La Sonnambula]]'' ("The Sleepwalker") an opera ''semiseria'' in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani, in turn based on ''[[La Somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un Nouveau Seigneur]]'', a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer. |
Published as Issue 224 of Dicks' Standard Plays | Published as Issue 224 of Dicks' Standard Plays | ||
Revision as of 05:12, 27 March 2018
The Somnabulist is a play in two acts by William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)[1]
Called "A Dramatic Entertainment", it is in fact in a burlesque based on La Sonnambula ("The Sleepwalker") an opera semiseria in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani, in turn based on La Somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un Nouveau Seigneur, a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer.
Published as Issue 224 of Dicks' Standard Plays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_sonnambula
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Somnambulist.html?id=DkYSHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
