Word: mapleson
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...satire, it is not surprising that this has entrenched itself as one of the very best of comic operas. It was a stock opera with such companies as the Boston Ideals and Emma Abbott's. It was last sung in Boston, as a grand production, by the Mapleson company. The Baker Opera Company, with William Wolff, gave its last performance here two years ago at the Bowdoin Square Theatre. The hero, Fra Diavolo, is a brigand, who is discovered in the first scene personating the Marquis of San Marco, in which disguise he has been tracking the course...