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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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1824: Performed in [[Dutch]] on 31 July in the [[African Theatre]] by  the amateur company [[Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense]], apparently with the overture of Rossini's opera and other music provided by [[Charles Etienne Boniface]]. It was accomp[anied by the one act play but wrongly accredited to "D'Orvigny" by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928, p. 279) or his source. Performed as afterpiece to ''[[De Barbier van Seville, of De Onnutte Voorsorg]]''  (Beaumarchais).
  
 
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Revision as of 05:43, 18 March 2016

Le Barbier de Seville, ou La Précaution Inutile is a comedy in four acts by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (usually referred to simply as "Beaumarchais", 1732-1799)[1]

The original text

Written in 1772 as the first of a trilogy of plays entitled Le Roman de la Famille Almaviva, with the others being Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) and L'Autre Tartuffe ou La Mère coupable (1792).

First performed in Paris on 23 and 25 February, 1775 at the Comédie-Française and was published by Ruault, Paris, in the same year.


Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Barbier van Seville, of De Onnutte Voorzorg, published in 1793.

It was twice adapted into an opera:

Il Barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La Precauzione Inutile by Paisiello (1782).

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini (1816).


Performance history in South Africa

1824: Performed in Dutch on 31 July in the African Theatre by the amateur company Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, apparently with the overture of Rossini's opera and other music provided by Charles Etienne Boniface. It was accomp[anied by the one act play but wrongly accredited to "D'Orvigny" by F.C.L. Bosman (1928, p. 279) or his source. Performed as afterpiece to De Barbier van Seville, of De Onnutte Voorsorg (Beaumarchais).

Sources

http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0019.php

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 279


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