1927-09-12

Performance Date(s): 
Monday, September 12, 1927
Tuesday, September 13, 1927
Wednesday, September 14, 1927
Thursday, September 15, 1927
Friday, September 16, 1927
Saturday, September 17, 1927
Known Number of Performances: 
7
Programme Text: 

[…]
Monday. Sept, 12th, 1927, and following nights at 8
Matinee, Saturday at 2.30pm

FIRST PRODUCTION OF W. B. YEATS’ VERSION OF
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
By SOPHOCLES
[…]

NOTE
[…]

CRABBED YOUTH AND AGE
A Little Comedy by LENNOX ROBINSON
[…]

The Orchestra, under the Direction of Dr. J. F. LARCHET, will perform the following selections:
Overture “Iphigenia in Aulis” Gluck (1714-1787)
(a) Excerpt Adagio Haydn (1732-1809)
(b) Prelude “I Vespri Siciliani” Verdi (1813-1901)

[…]

View the cast and creative personnel for this performance on the Abbey Archive: 

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3155
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3156

Location of original programme: 

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 23/1927

View this programmes' parent collection on the Concert Programmes Database: 

http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/8209

Musical Director(s): 
Larchet, John F. (1884-1967)
Composer(s): 
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von (1714-1787)
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Musical Work(s): 
Iphigenia auf Tauris. Overture
Vêpres siciliennes, Les. Selections
Playwright(s): 
Robinson, Lennox (1886-1958)
Sophocles
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) (1865-1939)
Theatrical Work(s): 
Crabbed youth and age
Oedipus at Colonus
Genre(s): 
English drama (Comedy)
English drama -- Irish authors -- 20th century
Operas -- Excerpts
Orchestral music
Overtures (Orchestra)
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