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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1895: Performed as ''[[La Favorita]]'' by the [[Ancarina Massimimi Italian Opera Company]] in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, early in the year. Though the company's performances in its extensive repertoire were considered excellent performers by Boonzaier (1923), he says that the company failed to gain much public support and that the entire undertaking was "a disastrous failure".
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:14, 5 December 2019

La Favorite ("The Favourite") is an opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1838)[1] and , with a French libretto by Alphonse Royer (1803-1875)[2] and Gustave Vaëz (1812-1862)[3].

Also known by the Italian title of La Favorita.

The original text

Based on the 1764 play Les Amans Malheureux, ou Le Comte de Comminge by Baculard d'Arnaud (1718–1805)[4], (an adaptation des Mémoires du comte de Comminge by Mme de Tencin, 1735), the romantic opera tells of the struggles of the King of Castile, Alfonso XI, and his mistress, the "favourite" Leonora, against the backdrop of the political wiles of receding Moorish Spain and the life of the Catholic Church. It premiered on December 2, 1840 at the Académie Royale de Musique (Salle Le Peletier) in Paris, France.

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Performance history in South Africa

Sources

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

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

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

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

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 1932. (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.203-205

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