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| + | The French libretto was written by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe] and Mélesville (1787-1865)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lesville] after the singspiel ''Jery und Bätely'' by Goethe, and music by Adolphe Adam(1803-1856)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Adam]. First performed at the Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse, Paris on 25 September 1834. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:46, 27 August 2017
Le Chalet is an opéra comique in one act by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[1], Mélesville (1787-1865)[2] and Adolphe Adam(1803-1856)[3].
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The original text
The French libretto was written by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)[4] and Mélesville (1787-1865)[5] after the singspiel Jery und Bätely by Goethe, and music by Adolphe Adam(1803-1856)[6]. First performed at the Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse, Paris on 25 September 1834.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted into English by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)[7] as The Swiss Chalet, or Why don't she Marry?, with music by Arthur Edward Shelden Seguin (1809-1852)[8].
Also known in English simply as The Swiss Chalet or Why don't she Marry?.
Performance history in South Africa
1857: Performed as as Why don't She Marry? for the opening production in Sefton Parry's first wooden theatre in Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 14 September (along with Morton's two plays Why don't she Marry? and A Thumping Legacy).
Sources
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr95043352/
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 57, 59, 61, 230, 236, 254,268, 325, 331.
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