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1 7 y separately published work icon Estrella : Opera Comique in Three Acts Walter Parke , Luscombe Searelle (composer), 1883 Sydney : Williamson Garner and Musgrove , 1884 Z1413986 1883 single work musical theatre opera Set in Venice, the action moves from the shore of the Adriatic to the Palace of the Count, and finally to the Doge's Palace of Justice. The narrative concerns Estrella, betrothed to a Count, but actually in love with Lorenzo, a young advocate. The Count schemes to test his wife-to-be's affection, and having found this out Lorenzo makes a plan with his friends to carry the Count off disguised as pirates. In the second act the count (disguised as a Hebrew moneylender) tells of his own capture and death, and that he was obliged to bring his last words to the young fiancée of the count. A second ceremony is performed, now between Lorenzo and Estrella. The third act, set in the Doge's Palace, which settles the problem once and for all, has been described as being influenced by the trial scene in The Merchant of Venice (Sydney Morning Herald 29 September 1884, p.8).
1 5 y separately published work icon Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , Melbourne : Williamson Garner and Musgrove , 1884 Z861250 1884 single work musical theatre pantomime fantasy

A pantomime based on the popular fairytale of Cinderella, the highlights were reportedly the grand procession (purchased from the 1883 Drury Lane production), an opening modelled on Macbeth, and scenes of Christmas cards ranging from Bethlehem to England to a fern-tree gully picnic. The Melbourne production also alluded to the bootmakers' strike.
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