Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed
Don Juan, or The Libertine Destroyed is a grand pantomimical ballet, in two parts, by Carlo Antonio Delpini. (Title also found as Don Juan, or the Libertine Destroy'd.)
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Founded on Shadwell's tragedy "Libertine", it was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday, the 26th. of October, 1790, "with songs, duets and choruses by Mr Reeve and music by Mr Gluck".
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Juan-Libertine-destroyd-entertainment/dp/1241035490
http://www.amazon.com/Don-Juan-pantomimical-Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane/dp/1170557597
David Erskine Baker 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-L. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, [1]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 145
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