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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seventeen women, and the total attendance was 3,062. In all there were 34 classes in English, history, languages, mathematics, and natural science, in addition to seven special classes in music. As a result of the spirit manifested throughout the year, nine dramatic entertainments, two concerts and an operetta were given by the members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Social Union. | 12/1/1899 | See Source »

...audiences limited only by the capacity of the house. For the coming week Genee's "Royal Middy" is announced. The libretto of the "Royal Middy" is taken from a French melo-drama by Mm. Bayard and Dumanoir. A translation of the melo-drama was made and adapted as an operetta by F. Zell, and with Genee's music it was given at Vionna in 879. Mr. Gustave Lagye then re-translated the title "Le Cadet de Marine." Augustine Daly bought the American rights to the work and brought it out in New York at his own theatre in spectacular style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/8/1896 | See Source »

...Columbia College Musical Society will present "The Buccaneers," an operetta in two acts, in Carnegie Lyceum, New York, during the week of April 20, for the benefit of the Columbia crew, and on April 18 at the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn, for the benefit of the Home for Aged Men. The libretto is by Guy Wetmore Carryl '95; the music by Kenneth M. Murchison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/15/1896 | See Source »

Last evening in Brattle Hall the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club gave a dress rehearsal of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, the Sorcerer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sorcerer. | 1/21/1896 | See Source »

...been shaking itself for its theatricals this season. Of late years it has confined itself to producing the burlesquiest of burlesques, with now and then a touch or two of the Hoyt Drama; in "Proserpina" it now at last gives us something which can very fairly be called an operetta, an operette in the Offenbach vein. And it hardly need be said that, compared with what burlesque has grown to in our day, anything approaching Offenbach operabouffe has a strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred to the Pudding before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Criticism on the Pudding Play. | 4/25/1895 | See Source »

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