Dorothy

Dorothy is a comic opera in three acts with music by Alfred Cellier (1844-1891)[1], with a libretto by B.C. Stephenson (1839-1906)[2].

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1893: Performed as the opening production in the new Opera House, Cape Town on 31 August 1893. by the Lyric Company, with Miss Leonora Branham of the Savoy, London in the lead. Grant Fallowes, later Leonard Rayne’s business manager, was also in the show.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_(opera)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Cellier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._C._Stephenson

D. Edwards. 1897. The Cape Town Guide. Cape Town: Maskew Miller (Digitised 2011)[3]

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 1923. (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.

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