£125.00
Date 28/02/1859
London Theatre Royal – William And Susan – Opera Programme 1859
A rare Victorian opera programme from the Theatre Royal, London, dated 28 February 1859, for William And Susan.
The principal cast lists Edmund Rosenthal, Miss C Lucetter and Miss Huddart among others, offering a glimpse of the London musical stage in the early years of Queen Victoria’s long reign.
Programmes from the 1850s are genuinely scarce today, and this is a fine example for collectors of old theatre programmes and early opera ephemera.
| Production | William And Susan opera. |
|---|---|
| Venue | Theatre Royal – London |
| Cast | Edmund Rosenthal, Miss C Lucetter, Miss Huddart, etc. |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, some markings, a few tiny edge ni's, corner folds
Did you know?
- The sailor William and his sweetheart Susan were familiar figures to Victorian audiences from John Gay’s ballad Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan.
- Douglas Jerrold’s nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan (1829), featuring the sailor William, was one of the biggest stage hits of the nineteenth century.
- In 1859 the theatre programme was still evolving from the large single-sheet playbill towards the folded programme familiar today.
SKU: T05027
