La Juive
La Juive ("The Jewess") is a grand opera in five acts by Jacques Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862)[], with an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe ()[].
Contents
The original text
The French work was first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 23 February 1835.
Translations and adaptations
The Scribe libretto was adapted into Dutch as a "Groot Melodrama" ("great melodrama") called De Jodin ("The Jewess") by W. Hempel ()[] and published in Utrecht by L.E. Bosch in 1838.
Performance history in South Africa
1892: Performed as De Jodin by amateurs drawn from the societies Aurora and De Eendracht in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 5 July, with Het Dorpspleidooi (Van Ray).
Sources
Facsimile version of the Dutch text by Hempel, Google E-book[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 451
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