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(OPERA BILL.) (COOKE, Thomas Simpson, composer.)
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(OPERA BILL.) (COOKE, Thomas Simpson, composer.) ~ Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. This Evening, Saturday, May 2, 1829. His Majesty’s Servants will act (By Particular Desire) 42nd time, a new Drama, in two Acts, called Charles the XIIth... After which, the Farce of The Portrait of Cervantes... To conclude with (for the 12th Time) a New Grand Melo-Dramatic Fairy Tale, entitled Thierna-Na-Oge Or The Prince of the Lakes. The Overture and Music composed and selected by Mr. T. Cooke. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. W. Barrymore... Monday next, May 4, will be produced, (for the first Time) A New Grand Opera, Masaniello; Or The Dumb Girl of Portici... The new Melo-Dramatic Fairy Tale of Thierna-na-Oge; Or, The Prince of the Lakes, Every Night! Colman’s Comedy of the Jealous Wife.  London: J.Tabby, Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [1829.]

Cooke’s Thierna-na-Oge is one of the first operas by an Irish-born composer to make use of the country’s rich store of legends: Thierna-na-Oge being the mythical Irish Atlantis. more...

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(OPERA BILL.) (MEYERBEER, Giacomo, composer.)
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(OPERA BILL.) (MEYERBEER, Giacomo, composer.) ~ Theatre Royal, Drury Lane This Evening, Monday, April 8th, 1833, Their Majesties’ Servants will perform, (for the First Time this Season), Meyerbeer’s Grand Opera of Robert The Devil With the Whole of the Music, for the First Time on an English Stage. On this occasion Mr. H. R. Bishop will preside in the Orchestra... To conclude with the Ballet Opera of The Maid of Cashmere. (With the whole of the Music, for the Eighth Time in this Country, by Auber,) Arranged and Adapted to the English Stage by Mr. H. R. Bishop...  [London:] S. G. Fairbrother Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [  1833.]

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