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

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]

Also found as Josephine, the Child of the Regiment, The Child of the Regiment, or The Daughter of the Regiment

The original text

An adaptation from La Fille du Regiment[2] (La Figlia del Reggimento), an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), with a French libretto by Jules Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, ‎Jean François Alfred Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.

Buckstone based his work on the French version and his play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in March, 1844, and published in London by T.H. Lacy, 1856.

Translations and adaptations

Performances in South Africa

1860: Performed early in the year as The Child of the Regiment in the Cabinet Theatre, Cape Town, by the company brought together by Charles Fraser, with Annie Rowlands as one of the cast.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1856 text, The Internet Archive [3]

Leonard R.N. Ashley. 1983. "Buckstone, John Baldwin" in The Victorian Period: Excluding the Novel. Macmillan International Higher Education: pp.62-5[4]

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

The London Illustrated News, 9 March 1844, p. 155[5]

Gaetano Donizetti. Donizetti's Opera, "La Fille du Regiment", Italian and English texts, O. Ditson & Company, 1859 [6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_du_r%C3%A9giment

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 127-8,

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