This work's premiere at Baden-Baden had been a prestigious affair, and the opera seemed set fair for a career as successful as the near-contemporaneous pieces by Offenbach which we now recognise as classics. This one, however, seems to have disappeared almost without trace.
Other dates for Glasgow, Edinburgh & Aberdeen to be confirmed.
Advertising in Dundee emphasised the fact that Grace Huntley and Henry Burton were former members of the theatre's stock company, and therefore familiar to the Dundee audience.
The cast is taken from The Comet in the Lamb Collection 253 (5) of Dundee Central Library.
A brief review appeared in the Courier.
Dundee Courier: Tuesday, 1 April 1879 (p4)
The Princess of Trebizonde at the Theatre Royal
'Last night, the Comic Opera Company organized by Mr E L Knapp, late acting manager of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, produced M Offenbach's famous opera bouffe, The Princess of Trebizonde, with marked success. The company is one of high talent, and this favourite opera was rendered altogether in an admirable manner.
'The Princess of Trebizonde is a really amusing production, bristling with puns, and with a number of very taking songs and choruses interspersed, all of which, in the hands of so efficient a company, were rendered with becoming spirit and impression. Mr Burton was particularly felicitous in his interpretation of Cabriolo, and made a happy hit in the introduction of the names of ''Willie Blair'' and ''Councillor Cowan.'' Miss Carrie Braham, as the ''strong woman of the wilderness,'' showed great versatility in her interpretation of the part, and the rendering by Miss Lucy Franklein of the songs ''The Turtle Doves'', ''Painted to Viv,'' and ''The Trotacha,'' were highly characteristic.
'The opera went remarkably well all through, the whole of the artistes being well up in their respective parts, and the fun of the piece increasing as it progressed. The Princess of Trebizonde will be repeated to-night and each evening during the week.'
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