Erminie is a comic opera in two acts composed by Edward Jakobowski with a libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton, based loosely on Charles Selby's 1834 English translation of the French melodrama, Robert Macaire. The story concerns an arranged engagement between Ermine and Ernest, but both are in love with someone else.
Poster from an 1894 production of Erminie at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh
Cover of the New York edition of Erminie (1887)
Ravennes and Cadeaux at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh (1894)
Irene Williams and Warren Proctor as Eminie and Eugène, 1921 Broadway revival
Edward Jakobowski was an English composer, especially of musical theatre, best known for writing the hit comic opera Erminie.
Cover of Jakobowski's Erminie – New York (1887)