Fra Diovolo, or The Banditti of the Anrouzes
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Fra Diovolo, or The Banditti of the Anrouzes was a "Grand Historical Pantomime" in two acts put on by the Equestrian Gymnastics company, with music by Guerroluch. According to the advertisement in the South African Commercial Advertiser of 19 October 1850, it had been first performed Circus Theatre of Paris, and consisting of "Grand Military Evolutions by upwards of Sixty Actors on Foot and on Horseback. It was performed a number of times in Cape Town between October and December, 1850."
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[1]: pp.439-440
