Shows · Boccaccio · Standard Theatre, 1880
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Who was in it7 named
Jennie Winston
Rosa Streitmann as Fiametta, Lambertuccio's foster-daughter
Franz Tewele as Lotteringhi, the cooper
Carl Blasel as Checco, a beggar
Creative team
- Director
- Max Freeman
Recordings
3 recordings of Boccaccio exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Boccaccio for all of them.
Around this production
Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Despite the opera's clear links to the Viennese opera tradition, Suppé's opera takes most of its style from Italian opera. The opera was begun somewhere around the fall of 1878 and first published in 1879 by the August Cranz company and performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879. An English translation and adaptation was completed in 1880 by…
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