Little Don Giovanni, or Leporello and the Stone Statue

Little Don Giovanni, or Leporello and the Stone Statue is a burlesque play in verse by Henry James Byron (1835–1884)[1]

The original text

Largely based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, with an overture and incidental music by J.C. Van Maanan. First performed in London on 26 December, 1865. Published in London, 1867.

Translations and adaptations

Also found is a rare text called An Original, Musical, Pantomical, Comical. Christmas Extravaganza, Entitled Don Juan! likewise written by H.J. Byron. Performed in London in 1873.

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed as Little Don Giovanni by the Disney Roebuck Company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 9 September with Under the Gaslight (Daly/Hazlewood) and Betsy Baker (Morton).

1876: Performed as Little Don Giovanni by the Disney Roebuck Company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 26 September, with The Corsican Brothers ().

Sources

Armand E. Singer 1993 The Don Juan Theme: An Annotated Bibliography of Versions, Analogues, Uses, and Adaptions. West Virginia University Press[2]

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 1923. (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.

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