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==The original text==
 
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No such text can be found to date, but it may conceivably have been a pirated/adapted version of ''[[[The Seraglio]]'',  a comic opera in two acts by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)[], which features a character called "Abdallah".
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 09:22, 29 July 2017

Abdullah is a comic opera by Oscar Weil (1839/40?-1921)[1].

The original text

No such text can be found to date, but it may conceivably have been a pirated/adapted version of [[[The Seraglio]], a comic opera in two acts by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)[], which features a character called "Abdallah".

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1885: Billed as "an extravaganza" it was performed at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town , produced by Mr H.C. Sidney and partner Mr H.J. Fiedler during the course of the year.

Sources

http://www.jmaw.org/oscar-weil-san-francisco/

D.C. Boonzaier. 1980. "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.)

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