La Fille de Madame Angot
La Fille de Madame Angot ("The daughter of Madame Angot") is an opera comique[] in three acts by F. Desprez ()[] Charles Lecocq ()[]
Contents
The original text
Composed in 1872, published in Paris by Brandus, probably in 1873. Revised in 1888
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by Henry James Byron (1835-1884)[] and published in London by Boosey & Co., n.d.
Performance history in South Africa
1887: Presented by the Searelle Opera Company at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town as part of a popular six-month season of opera. Also toured to Port Elizabeth.
Sources
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. 385
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