Librettiste

Printed handbill poem. Part Song. "The Torpedo and the Whale" From Comic Opera "Olivette" By Audran.

réf. 12301 — Without date or place. 1p. 16mo. On a piece of watermarked laid paper 17 x 10.5 cm. Fair on lightly-aged paper with a manuscript correction 'tracts' to 'tracks'. In three numbered stanzas Farnie's version being in effect an entirely new poem: 'This Fish was indeed Oh! A Woolwich Torpedo But Oh! But Oh! The big whale did not know.' 'Les noces d'Olivette' was first performed in Paris in 1879; Farnie's English language adaptation starring Florence St. John was performed at the Strand Theatre in London from 1880 to 1881. This version without date or place does not correspond to any of the six versions listed on COPAC. Without date or place. unknown