The Queen's Horse
A burletta in one act by Michael Burke Honan, James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)
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The original text
According to a reviewer in The Aldine Magazine this was a “free and compressed translation of Le Brasseur de Preston” , an “opéra-comique en trois actes” , composed by Adolphe Adam to a libretto by Adolphe de Leuven (1800-1884) and Léon-Lévy Brunswick (1805-1859), and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse on 31 October, 1838. Published by in Paris by J. Delahante, n.d.(ca.1838). The English one-act version was first performed at Madame Vestris's Royal Olympic theatre on 3 December, 1838 and published in London by Chapman and Hall, possibly in 1839.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1854: Performed on 5 June in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players and some local Amateurs, with The Rent-Day (Jerrold) and The Spitalfields Weaver (Bayly).
Sources
Review, The Aldine Magazine, Dec. 1838-June 1839, Volume 1: p. 29. (Google eBook)[1] http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100410531 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9_bibliography F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 407, Go to ESAT Bibliography
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