IMAGE
Theatre Royal Christchurch :London Gaiety Burlesque Company. "Carmen up to data". [1893].
- Date
- 1893
- By
- J J Miller Printing Company
- Reference
- Eph-B-OPERA-1893-01-cover
- Description
The back and front cover spread of what is actually a programme for "Carmen up to data" in Christchurch in 1893, shows scenes from the show "Forty thieves", which had played the previous year at the Princess Theatre Melbourne. The illustrations mainly feature a beautiful dancing girl. In one scene she pours oil into a jar containing a person. In another she dances, watched by an admirer in a tree.
"Carmen up to data" was a musical burlesque, a spoof of Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen". It premiered at the Gaiety Theatre London, on 4 October 1890, and toured internationally reaching Australia by 1892. This cover has been overprinted for use in the New Zealand season.
Extended Title - Superprinted on top of programme for, Princess Theatre, Melbourne. Grand Xmas pantomime, "Forty thieves", 1892-3.
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Designed & lithographed by J J Miller, Melbourne
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Letterpress and lithograph, on cover 258 x 238 mm (unfolded).
- Additional description
Alternative form available: File print and colour transparency available in Ephemera Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Theatre programmes for opera performances in New Zealand. 1890s].
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Letterpress works, Lithographs, Theatre programmes, Conjectural works, Letterpress and lithograph, on cover 258 x 238 mm (unfolded)., Orientation: Vertical image
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