Véronique

Véronique is a French opérette in three acts by Albert Vanloo (1846-1920) and Georges Duval (1847-1919), with music by André Messager (1853-1929)[].

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 (piano music and lyrics), 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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