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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Produced in 1827 and quite popular in Paris, though the text was never published.
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Produced in 1827 and quite popular in Paris, though the text does not appear to have been published.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:51, 2 June 2021

La Somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un Nouveau Seigneur is a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer, with music composed by Ferdinand Hérold.

The original text

Produced in 1827 and quite popular in Paris, though the text does not appear to have been published.

Translations and adaptations

Despite being unpublished, the Scribe work inspired many other works, including:

La Sonnambula, or The Sleepwalker by Vincenzo Bellini

A well-known Italian opera (or also described as drama with music) La Sonnambula, or The Sleepwalker[1]


The Somnambulist by William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)[2]

Called "A Dramatic Entertainment", it is a burlesque based on Scribe's scenario for the original ballet-pantomime. of play in two acts, it is which is also found as The Somnambulist, or The Phantom of the Village, La Somnambula or The Sleep-Walker, or La Somnambula)

Moncrieff's text was published as The Somnabulist in Issue 224 of Dicks' Standard Plays. Published as The Somnambulist, or The Phantom of the Village by J. Cumberland, 1899


Performance history in South Africa

1857: Performed by the Boscawen Amateurs in Simonstown on 28 December, with Who Speaks First? (Dance) as a benefit evening for the Indian Sufferers Relief Fund.

1857: What appears to have been La Somnambula or The Sleep-Walker (by Bellini and Romani) was performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 8 December, with The Mistress of the Mill (Moncrieff) as afterpiece.

1862: Performed often (as La Somnambula) by the Christy Minstrels, during their three-month long tour of the Cape Province. The company was led by Mr Melvyn, with Mr Norton, Mr Rainford and Joe Brown. The director of the orchestra was Mr Stewart

1869: Performed as La Somnambula in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town by the Miranda-Harper Company.

1875: Performed as La Somnambula in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town by Disney Roebuck and his company, with Christmas Eve, or The Duel in the Snow (Fitzball)


1901: The Somnabulist performed in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, by Morris Waxman and his Hebrew Artistes

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_somnambule,_ou_L%27arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_nouveau_seigneur

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

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Somnambulist.html?id=DkYSHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Somnambulist_Or_the_Phantom_of_the_V.html?id=jVgPMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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. 140, 408

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