Zelma or Will o' The Wisp

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  1. Title page from Zelma

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Title

Zelma or Will o' The Wisp

Event Type

Performance (musical play as afterpiece)

Author

Hayley, William
Bretzner, Christoph Friedrich

Duration

Played from 1792-04-16 for ? days/weeks

Description

Hayley's opera translated/adapted from Bretzner's Der Irrwisch oder fand er sie, at Jeremiah Meyer's suggestion, and sold for £100 to Thomas Harris.

See Hayley's Memoirs; v, 1, pp 347-348, 355, 395-396.

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Title page from Zelma

Citation

“Zelma or Will o' The Wisp,” A Museum of Relationships: The correspondence of William Hayley (1745-1820), accessed November 24, 2024, https://hayleypapers.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/items/show/297.

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