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==''[[Genoveva]]'' by Frans Demers and Jan Melis== | ==''[[Genoveva]]'' by Frans Demers and Jan Melis== | ||
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Genevieve of Brabant is the name of a heroine of medieval legend.
(Also found as Geneviève de Brabant, Genoveva or Genovefa)
Contents
The legend
According to the legend (apparently based on the real history of Marie of Brabant, wife of Louis II, Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine), she was the wife of the palatine Siegfried of Treves, falsely accused of infidelity by the head of the household and sentenced to death, However, she was spared by the executioner to lived for six years with her son in a cave in the Ardennes, where Siegfried discovered her and reinstated her in her former honour.[1]
Stage versions of the legend
Among the many dramatized versions of the story are:
Leben und Tod der heiligen Genoveva a dramatic poem by Ludwig Tieck (1799)
Genoveva a play by Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1843)
Genoveva an opera by Robert Schumann (1850, inspired by Hebbel's play)
Geneviève de Brabant an opéra bouffe[2] by Jacques Offenbach (1859)
Genoveva a play by Mathilde Wesendonck (1866)
Geneviève de Brabant a stage work by Erik Satie (1899/1900)
Genoveva a Dutch play by Frans Demers and Jan Melis (1912).
Suor Angelica an opera by Giacomo Puccini (1918 opera, inspired by Hebbel's play)
The versions performed in South Africa
Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach (1859)
Written as an opéra bouffe[3] by Jacques Offenbach (1859)
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1872: A performance of "a laughable and popular extract from Offenbach's Opera" by a Signor Abecco and a company of amateurs as part of a concert evening, probably in the Catholic Hall (formerly best known as the St Aloysius Hall), Cape Town
Genoveva by Frans Demers and Jan Melis
Also written Genovefa at times.
The original text
The play is based on Genoveva (also named Genoveva de Brabante or Genovefa in editions), a German prose version of the original legend by Christoph von Schmid [4] (1768-1854). Adapted for the stage as a sentimental three act Dutch play by Frans Demers and Jan Melis, with musical adaptions by Arthur Meulemans and published in Amsterdam by De Bussy, circa 1912.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Genoveva by Mrs Carinus-Holzhausen, first preoduced in the 1930s and the text later published by DALRO, 1969.
Performance history in South Africa
1930s: The Afrikaans version produced by André Huguenet, with Huguenet and Lydia Lindeque in the leading roles.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_bouffe
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.281
NELM catalogue.
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