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unusual facts about Breeches role


Breeches role

Verdi's Un ballo in maschera: "Oscar", Gustavus III's page, is sung by a soprano


Ann Cargill

She then ran off to Bath with her husband for the summer, returning for the breeches role of Patie in Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd and the female role of Marinetta in Richard Tickell and Thomas Linley's Carnival of Venice.

Euphrosyne Löf

She was among the first Swedish actresses known by name to have performed in breeches role; in 1794, she and Inga Åberg did the two male leading parts of August and Theodor in the play De begge kammarpagerna (The Two Valets) by Kexel.


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