Les Cloches de Corneville

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Les Cloches de Corneville ("The bells of Corneville") is an opera comique[1] 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.

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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