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| − | ''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'' ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer], with music by Henry Vernon. | + | ''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'' ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer], with music by Henry Vernon. |
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| + | Not to be confused with a "side-splitting entertainment" called '''''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]''''' (Anon.). | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
| − | + | A possible source may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883. | |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:33, 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.
Not to be confused with a "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) (Anon.).
Contents
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.
A possible source may have been The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam), which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
Translations and adaptations
A "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) (or simply The Bal Masqué) 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.
See The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)
Performance history in South Africa
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,
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