L'Astronome
L'Astronome, an opéra-comique in 2 acts by Jean-Louis Brousse-Desfaucherets (1742-1808)[1], with music by Louis-Sébastien Lebrun (1764-1829)[2].
The title De l'Astronomanie appears in F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 92), with no author given. However, it is most probably a wrongly cited reference to this play. It may have been an adaptation
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The original text
It was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Feydeau on 21 November, 1798.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1807: Performed as De l'Astronomanie on 12 December in the Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre in Cape Town by the Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap, with La Revanche Forcée (Jacques Marie Deschamps).
Sources
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Brousse-Desfaucherets
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 92
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