La belle Hélène (Fair Helen); . comic opera, in three acts, by Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy. English version by Charles Lamb Kennedy. The music by J. Offenbach.
Henri Meilhac (1831-1897)
Category
Books
Date
1862
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018276
Summary
Bibliographic description
51,51p. . 21cm.. Date of publication written in pencil on titlepage in the hand of G.O. Trevelyan. manuscript notes, including one critical of translator 'This ass can't even translate names right, but must make nonsense of the whole scene'. A further note inserts missing text 'as I heard it 8 times in its first season of 1867, 66 years ago'.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on titlepage: G.O. Trevelyan. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Half leather; marbled boards; title gilt-lettered direct onto spine.
Makers and roles
Henri Meilhac (1831-1897) Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908) Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-1881) Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)