Alexis, ou l'Erreur d'un bon Père
An "opéra comique", in one act by librettist Benoît Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières (1750-1817) and composer Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac (1753-1809).
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Original text
First performed in the Théâtre Feydeau 24 January, 1798 ("Représentée sur le théâtre Feydeau, le 5 pluviôse, an 6 de la République").
Published by Maradan, 1803.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed in the original French, simply as an "Opéra Comique" by the French Theatrical Company (also referred to in Dutch as Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre , i.e. "French Amateur Theatre") in the African Theatre in Cape Town, as afterpiece to L'Opéra-Comique assiégé on 28 May 1808. (The author wrongly given by Bosman, 1928, as "Marsollier en [and] Vivetières".)
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/empire/id/9494
Internet Archive: Alexis, ou l'Erreur d'un bon Père[1]
Bosman, 1928: p.93.
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