La Périchole
La Périchole is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)[1], with a French libretto by Henri Meilhac (1830-1897)[2] and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)[3].
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The libretto was based on a one act play Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Merimee ()[], written in the 1829 and revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français.
Translations and adaptations
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_P%C3%A9richole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Meilhac
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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