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 Figlia del Reggimento (La Fille du Regiment), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, with an Italian libretto by Andrea Passaro (and a French one by Bayard (Jean-François-Alfred, M.), Henri Saint-Georges and music by .

Buckstone based his work on the French version and this was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in March, 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

The London Illustrated News, 9 March 1844, p. 155[4]

Gaetano Donizetti. Donizetti's Opera, "La Fille Du Regiment", Italian and English texts, O. Ditson & Company, 1859 [5]

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