Difference between revisions of "Le Bal Masqué"
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| − | 1867: Performed on 15 June by the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town. Part of a Dramatic and Gymnastic Entertainment" which also included a "Gymnastics Display" and as ''[[The Rose of Ettrick Vale]]'' (), a "beautiful Scotch National Drama". | + | 1867: Performed on 15 June by the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town. Part of a Dramatic and Gymnastic Entertainment" which also included a "Gymnastics Display" and as ''[[The Rose of Ettrick Vale]]'' (Lynch), a "beautiful Scotch National Drama". |
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Revision as of 06:16, 5 December 2018
Le Bal Masqué ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[1] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[2], with music by Henry Vernon.
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The original text
According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975), this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898 and billed as a "new opera" done by the Battersby Juvenile Opera in Eastbourne on 25 May 1898.
Translations and adaptations
A "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) was apparently well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p. 260). However this is highly unlikely to be true since Ward was only born in 1883. It must have been earlier, burlesque-style work.
Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed on 15 June by the 9th Regiment in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town. Part of a Dramatic and Gymnastic Entertainment" which also included a "Gymnastics Display" and as The Rose of Ettrick Vale (Lynch), a "beautiful Scotch National Drama".
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[3]
Eastbourne Gazette East Sussex, England, 25 May 1898[4]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.260, Go to ESAT Bibliography
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