Les contes de la Reine de Navarre, la revanche de Pavie, comédie in five acts by A. E. Scribe and A. Legouvé. Printed (1850). French. Licence sent 5 April 1853 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at Théâtre Français 15 October 1850. Signed by J. Mitchell. Publis...
Rigoletto, lyric drama in three acts; the libretto by F. Piave (for the music by Verdi) based on Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo and originally called ‘Le maledizione’. Printed. Italian with English translation by Manfredo Maggioni. Licence sent 7 May 1853 for performance at the Royal Italian ...
Benvenuto Cellini, lyric play in three acts (for the music by Hector Berlioz). Printed (Brettell, n.d.). Libretto (by L. de Wailly and A. Barbier) in Italian with English translation. Licence sent 25 June 1853 for performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. Passages to be omitted...
Matilde de Shabran, libretto in two acts by J. Ferretti (for the music by Rossini) edited and translated by Manfredo Maggioni. Printed (Brettell, n.d.). Italian with English translation. Licence sent 20 April 1854 for performance at the Italian Opera Covent Garden. Actors' names listed with...
'Faust and Marguerite, or, The demon tempter', melodrama in three acts. Licence sent 11 August 1854 for performance at the Grecian Saloon the same day. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that two passages be censored for religious content. Keywords: science and...
Il Conte Ory, lyric comedy in two acts (for the music by Rossini). Printed. Italian with English translation by Manfredo Maggioni; a version of the original French libretto by A. E. Scribe and C. G. Delestre-Poirson. Licence sent 25 August 1854 for performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Cov...