Giralda, ou La Nouvelle Psyché

Giralda, ou La Nouvelle Psyché is an opéra comique[1] with a text by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[2] and music by Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)[3].

The original text

The French piece had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique theatre, Paris, on 20 July 1850.

Translations and adaptations

It was simulatniously presented in English in London in three versions:

As Giralda, or The Invisible Husband, adapted as a comic drama in three acts, by Henry Welstead and first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, on Thursday, September 12, 1850. Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1850.

As Giralda, or the Miller's Wife

As Giralda, or Which Is My Husband?

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

Facsimile version of the Welstead text of 1850, Warwick Digital Collections [4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Adam

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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