Les Noces d'Olivette

Les Noces d'Olivette is a French opéra comique in three acts composed by Edmond Audran (1842-1901)[1], with a libretto by Henri Chivot (1830-1897)[2] and Alfred Duru (1829-1889)[3].

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English from the French as Olivette, a comic opera in three acts, by Henry Brougham Farnie (1836-1889)[], the dialogue and business translated and adapted by "T. L."

London Opera Comique Company, Williamson, Garner & Musgrove's Royal Opera Company

Published in Boston by O. Ditson & Co.; c1881., Miller and Sayers, 1889

Performance history in South Africa

1882-3: Performed in English for the first time in South Africa as Olivette by Mabel Hayes and her company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, , with vocal work supervised by Henry Harper. Done as part of a season that not only included the premieres of two more comic operas - Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan) and Manteaux Noirs (Parke, Paulton & Bucalossi) - but also a range of plays.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_noces_d%27Olivette

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100750944

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8997671?selectedversion=NBD24314579

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 375, 389-390, 410-411,

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