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Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Sweet Simplicity
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Notes

  • Comic opera with libretto and music by Fred. A. Packer.
  • Author's note: First produced under the management of F. E. Hudspeth

Production Details

  • The first performance of this work was a private production at Government House on the 2nd June 1888 with the first public presentation at the Theatre Royal (Hobart) on the 22nd February 1889. The second production included a number of extra songs and duets. Annotated Calendar of Plays Premiered in Australia 1870-1890 compiled by Veronica Kelly (1997): 278.

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First known date: ca. 1888
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