Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. This present Saturday, March 7, 1829, will be produced an opera, (never performed in this country) called The Maid of Judah; or Knights Templars. : (The story taken from Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.).
Scott, Walter,1771-1832.Ivanhoe
Lacy, M. Rophino(Michael Rophino),1795-1867.
Pacini,signor(Antonio Francesco Gaetano Saverio),1778-1866.Ivanhoé.
Rossini, Gioacchino,1792-1868.Ivanhoé.
Theatre Royal (London, England)
[London]. : Printed by W. Reynolds, 9 Denmark-Court, Strand.,
[1829]
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The Maid of Judah was an English adaptation, by the Irish violinist Michael Rophino Lacy, of Ivanhoé, a pasticcio created by Antonio Pacini in 1826 as a means of introducing Rossini’s music to Paris, with libretto by Émile Deschamps and Gabriel-Gustave de Wailly, based on Walter's Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe".  Scott had been in Paris himself to see the opera, remarking: ‘It was superbly got up, the Norman soldiers wearing pointed helmets and what resembled much hauberks of mail, which looked very well.  The number of the attendants, and the skill with which they were moved and grouped on the stage, were well worthy of notice.  It was an opera, and of course the story greatly mangled, and the dialogue in a great part nonsense. Yet it was strange to hear anything like the words which I (then in an agony of pain with spasms in my stomach) dictated to William Laidlaw at Abbotsford, now recited in a foreign tongue, and for the amusement of a strange people’ (Journal, 31 October 1826).
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