Manteaux Noirs
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Manteaux Noirs ("The black mantles") is a comic opera in three acts by Walter Parke and Harry Paulton, with music by Procida Bucalossi.
Also known as The Black Mantles
Contents
The original text
London Cramer and Company. The vocal score published as The Black Mantles in Boston and Chicago by White, Smith and Company, ca.1886.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1882-3: Performed for the first time in South Africa in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Mabel Hayes and her company, with vocal work supervised by Henry Harper, as part of a season that not only included the premieres of two more comic operas - Manteaux Noirs (Parke and Paulyon) and Olivette (Farnie) - but also a range of plays.
Sources
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015055468394&view=1up&seq=7
