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William Vincent Wallace (International) assertion William Vincent Wallace i(7902745 works by)
This international person/organisation [strike out not applicable] is included in AustLit to identify a relationship with Australian literature.
Born: Established: 11 Mar 1812 Waterford (County),
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Ireland,
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 12 Oct 1865
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France,
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: 1835 Departed from Australia: 1838
Heritage: Irish
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1 1 Maritana (International) assertion Edward Fitzball , William Vincent Wallace (composer), 1845 single work musical theatre opera

The first of William Wallace's six operas by Wallace, Maritana is often cited as an inspiration for a plot device in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard. While awaiting execution in a Spanish prison Don Caesar is induced to marry a heavily-veiled woman so that his death will be by firing squad rather than decapitation. The marriage is being arranged by Don Jose, a government minister who plans to later use the woman in a plot to compromise the King. When Don Caesar escapes he disguises himself as a monk and goes looking for the woman.

Wallace and Fitzball's opera is itself based on the 1844 play Don César de Bazan by Adolphe d'Ennery and Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir, which was also the source material for Jules Massenet's opéra comique Don César de Bazan.

Maritana was first staged in Australia in 1849. It was revived on a number of occasions during the late-nineenth century and also became the source of several burlesque adaptations.
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