Cream silk programme with applied cream silk fringe on each side, printed in black ink with the royal crest, the name of the company, the venue, date, the performance and scene designer
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| - Cream silk programme with applied cream silk fringe on each side, printed in black ink with the royal crest, the name of the company, the venue, date, the performance and scene designer (en)
- Silk programme for a command performance by Sir Augustus Harris's company from the Opera House Covent Garden of Gounod's <i>Philemon et Baucis</i> and Massenet's <i>La Navarraise</i>, Windsor Castle, Friday 6th July 1894 (en)
- Silk and satin theatre programmes were frequently produced in the 18th and 19th centuries to commemorate special theatrical and musical events, the less expensive ones with integral fringing made from fraying cut edges, and the more expensive with separately applied silk or metallic fringes. This programme was produced for a command performance for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle by Sir Augustus Harris's company from the Opera House Covent Garden, of two French operas, with scenery designed by the prolific scene designer Robert Caney. Since Queen Victoria did not go to the theatre after the death of Prince Albert in 1861, theatre, opera, and circus came to her, especially at Windsor.
The evening began with Charles Gounoud's mythological opera <i>Philémon et Baucis, </i>based on La Fontaine's tale of the gods Jupiter and Vulcan visiting the elderly couple Baucis and Philémon on earth and making them young again. The production had already had four performances at Covent Garden on 17th and 22nd May, 26th June and 5th July. It was followed by Jules Massenet's <i>La Navarraise</i>about the lowly girl Anita from Navarre whose love for the soldier Araguil results in her killing the enemy Commander to raise money for her dowry, and going mad herself. The French operatic star Emma Calvé (1858-1942), for whom<i> La Navarraise</i> was written, starred as Anita. The opera had received its international debut at Covent Garden the previous month, on the 20th June, with the Prince of Wales in attendance.
Queen Victoria wrote about the evening in her diary, and although admiring the performance and music of Charles Gounod's <i>Philémon et Baucis</i> thought its plot 'silly and nonsensical' and that of <i>La Navarraise</i> 'very dramatic but dreadful'. She decided that music didn't have much melody, except the 'fine and expressive' overture, but enjoyed Emma Calvé's 'splendid performance' and her mad laugh at the end when her lover died . (en)
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| - Cream silk programme with applied cream silk fringe on each side, printed in black ink with the royal crest, the name of the company, the venue, date, the performance and scene designer (en)
- Silk programme for a command performance by Sir Augustus Harris's company from the Opera House Covent Garden of Gounod's <i>Philemon et Baucis</i> and Massenet's <i>La Navarraise</i>, Windsor Castle, Friday 6th July 1894 (en)
- Silk and satin theatre programmes were frequently produced in the 18th and 19th centuries to commemorate special theatrical and musical events, the less expensive ones with integral fringing made from fraying cut edges, and the more expensive with separately applied silk or metallic fringes. This programme was produced for a command performance for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle by Sir Augustus Harris's company from the Opera House Covent Garden, of two French operas, with scenery designed by the prolific scene designer Robert Caney. Since Queen Victoria did not go to the theatre after the death of Prince Albert in 1861, theatre, opera, and circus came to her, especially at Windsor.
The evening began with Charles Gounoud's mythological opera <i>Philémon et Baucis, </i>based on La Fontaine's tale of the gods Jupiter and Vulcan visiting the elderly couple Baucis and Philémon on earth and making them young again. The production had already had four performances at Covent Garden on 17th and 22nd May, 26th June and 5th July. It was followed by Jules Massenet's <i>La Navarraise</i>about the lowly girl Anita from Navarre whose love for the soldier Araguil results in her killing the enemy Commander to raise money for her dowry, and going mad herself. The French operatic star Emma Calvé (1858-1942), for whom<i> La Navarraise</i> was written, starred as Anita. The opera had received its international debut at Covent Garden the previous month, on the 20th June, with the Prince of Wales in attendance.
Queen Victoria wrote about the evening in her diary, and although admiring the performance and music of Charles Gounod's <i>Philémon et Baucis</i> thought its plot 'silly and nonsensical' and that of <i>La Navarraise</i> 'very dramatic but dreadful'. She decided that music didn't have much melody, except the 'fine and expressive' overture, but enjoyed Emma Calvé's 'splendid performance' and her mad laugh at the end when her lover died . (en)
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