Veuve du Malabar Opéra-Bouffe en 3 Actes Paroles de M. M. Hecter Crémieux et A. Delacour ... Théâtre des Variétés ... Partition Piano & Chant Pr. net: 12 f. [Piano-vocal score]

Paris: Colombier [PN C. 3571], 1873. Large octavo. Quarter mid-brown leather with marbled boards with light orange Rouart-Lerolle subscription label laid down to upper, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title illustrated by Barbizet, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list and contents, verso blank), 181, [i] (blank) pp.

Named cast includes dupuis, Berthelier, Léonce, Christian, Daniel-Bac, Mussay, Coste, Bordier, Théodore, Schneider, Heilbron, J. Grandville, L. Baron, E. Gilberrt, Bl. Mery, E. Lavigne, J. Eyre, Milia, Julia, Debryat, Madeleine, and Marry.

Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; spine lacking. Minor to moderate foxing; front joint split; some signatures separated; occasional light dampstaining to lower margin, not affecting music; rectangular subscription handstamp to front free endpaper and first three leaves. First Edition.

La veuve du Malabar, to a libretto by Crémieux and A. Delacour), was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on 26 April 1873.

"For his theatrical career [Ronger] took the name Hervé, gradually gaining recognition through his Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança (1848) and engagements at the Théâtre de l'Odéon and Théâtre du Palais-Royal, where he appeared as author, composer, conductor, actor, tenor buffo singer and producer, as required." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.