De Zwarte Kapitein
De Zwarte Kapitein ("The black captain") is a one act comedy by Leonard (fl. 1870s).
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The original text
Written for the Rederijkers and published by Schuitemaker in Purmerende, 1875.
If it is not an adaptation of the opera, it could possibly have been the source for De Zwarte Kapitein ( Der Zchwarze Capitan in German, Le Capitaine Noir in French), a three act comic opera by Rosier Faassen (Pieter Jacobus Faassen, librettist), Gustave François Lagye (1843-1908, librettist), Jozef Mertens (1834-1901, composer).
The full musical work was first performed in The Hague in 1877 and published in Dutch as De Zwarte Kapiteinby W.Carpentier, 's Gravenhage in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1886: Performed as De Zwarte Kapitein in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, by Aurora II on 10 December, with De Montfordt's (Leonard).
Sources
https://www.loc.gov/resource/musschatz.20465.0/?sp=3
Facsimile version of the text of the 3 act musical, Google E-book[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 474
Ingmar Koch. 1997. Het ochtendgloren boven Kaapstad. Nederlandse rederijkers in Kaapstad, Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans. (4de Jaargang, Nommer 2. Desember)[2]
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