Le Secret

Le Secret is a French one-act opéra  by  François Benoît Hoffman (1760–1828) and by Jean-Pierre Solié (1755- 1812).

The original text
Based on the 5 act comedy La Femme Jalouse by François-Antoine Jolly, the opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in the Salle Favart on 20 April 1796. Published in 1796 as a "comédie mêlée de musique" ("a comedy with music").

Translated into Dutch as Het Geheim by Pieter Gerardus Witsen Geysbeek. Published by Abraham Mars (Amsterdam), 1801.

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