BALFE: The Devil’s in it

BALFE: The Devil’s in it 26 July. London , Surrey Text by A. Bunn. Prologue and 3 acts. Subsequently given at New York 17 December 1852 as The Basket Maker’s Wife. Revived London , Gaiety 14 June 1871 as Letty the Basket Maker (text re-written by J. P. Simpson ). Balfe himself, in a list of his operas (see C. L. Kenney , A Memoir of M. W. Balfe, p.256) erroneously gives 1847 as the year of the first production of The Devil’s in it, and his authority, of course, has been followed by all…