Véronique

Véronique is a French opérette in three acts by A. Vanloo and G. Duval, with music by André Messager

Also found as Veronique in English sources.

The original text

First performed in French at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 10 December, 1898 and and the text published by Choudens, Paris, France in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1905: Performed by a company under the management of the Wheeler Brothers in the Opera House, Cape Town, on 11 September.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1898 French score ("Partition chant et piano"), Google E-book[1]

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. 422, 425, 435

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