Rip Van Winkle is an operetta in three acts based on the stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving after the play by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson, composed by Robert Planquette with a libretto by Henry Brougham Farnie, Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille. It is open to the Comedy Theatre Royal in London on October 14, 1882 and lasted a very successful 328 performances, with Frederick Hobson Leslie. Read the rest of this entry »
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story by Washington Irving in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Written while he lived in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving companion piece “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is among the first examples of American fiction read today. Read the rest of this entry »