La Fille de Madame Angot

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La Fille de Madame Angot ("The daughter of Madame Angot") is an opera comique[] in three acts by F. Desprez ()[] Charles Lecocq ()[]

The original text

Composed in 1872, published in Paris by Brandus, probably in 1873. Revised in 1888

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English by Henry James Byron (1835-1884)[] and published in London by Boosey & Co., n.d.

Performance history in South Africa

1887: Presented by the Searelle Opera Company at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town as part of a popular six-month season of opera. Also toured to Port Elizabeth.

Sources

https://imslp.org/wiki/La_fille_de_Madame_Angot_(Lecocq%2C_Charles)

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 1923. (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. 385

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