Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War

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Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, or The Fortune of War is a musical comedy, in two acts, by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1]


An adaptation from La Fille du Regiment, with Donizetti's music, was so popular at the Opera Comique. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1844, and published in London by T.H. Lacy, 1856.



Facsimile version of the 1856 text, The Internet Archive[2]

Leonard R.N. Ashley. 1983. "Buckstone, John Baldwin" in The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel. Macmillan International Higher Education: pp.62-5[3]

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