Les Cloches de Corneville
Les Cloches de Corneville ("The bells of Corneville") is an opéra-comique in three acts, composed by Robert Planquette with a libretto by Louis Clairville and Charles Gabet.
Also known as The Chimes of Normandy in English.
Contents
The original text
Premiére Date: 26 March 1730, in the Théâtre de la Foire Saint-Germain: Paris
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1884-5 season: Performed in the original French by the Henry Harper Company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_cloches_de_Corneville
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 380
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