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Add MS 27725
- Record Id:
- 040-002031140
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031114
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000117.0x000253
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27725
- Title:
- Henry R. Bishop: 'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night', opera
- Scope & Content:
- 'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night': Comic Opera in Two Acts. Partly composed, and the whole arranged and adapted for the English Stage by Henry R. Bishop. The Poetry by Edw. Fitz-Ball.' The alterations and additions are in Bishop's hand.This volume contains the music, in score, the orchestra consisting of flutes, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, bassoons, trombones, drums (timballes and grosse caisse), cymbals, harp, and strings, with parts for harmonica and bell added by Bishop. The English version has been added above or below the French text.Add MS 27726 contains the English words (described as 'Two Nights') in MS, the principal actors' parts, and the printed libretto (with names of performers).Characters (as in the original and in the adaptation): Lord Fingar (Sir Lionel Lorimer), Sir Edward (Valentine Acton), Victor (Hector), Valter (Neville), Duncar (Alford), Blakfort (Villars), Salgar (Woodstock), Mowbray, Cleveland, Wilton, Rugby, Le Constable (Justice Rigid), Strun (Portlock), Betti (Rose), Carill (Jocelyn), Jakmann (Torpid), and Malvina; with Choruses of Domestics, Officers, Bridesmaids, Villagers, etc.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031114
040-002031140 - Is part of:
- Add MS 27700-27729 : Operatic compositions of Sir Henry Rowley
Add MS 27725 : Henry R. Bishop: 'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night', opera - Hierarchy:
- 032-002031114[0026]/040-002031140
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 27700-27729
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (439 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1829
- End Date:
- 1829
- Date Range:
- 1829
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper. Folio and Quarto.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Boieldieu, François-Adrien, composer, 1775-1834
Fitz-Ball, Edward, playwright and writer, 1793-1873
Petitti, Antonio, Comte - Subjects:
- Operas