BOIELDIEU: La Dame blanche*

BOIELDIEU: La Dame blanche* 10 December. Paris, O.C. Text by A. E. Scribe (founded on Scott’s Guy Mannering and The Monastery). Three acts. Boieldieu’s chief work, and one of the greatest successes of French opéra-comique. The I,oooth performance at the O.C. was on 16 December 1862, the 1,675th on 12 March 1914; last revived there 7 January 1926; revived at Brussels 20 October 1936. Parodies: Les Dames à la Mode (on Boieldieu’s opera and Rossini’s Donna del Lago) by N. Gersin , N. Brazier, J…