Justin Croft Antiquarian Books : (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)...

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THE IRISH ATLANTIS IN LONDON

(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.]

Folding broadsheet, pp. [1], 2, [2] (blank verso), each page (360 × 200 mm). Roughly trimmed edges. Minor offsetting and browning.

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. 1829 was its first season.

£200.00 (equal to approx. US$316.70* or €247.34* for 22 May 2012)

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