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''[[Les Deux Avares]]'' ("The Two Misers") is an "opéra bouffon" or comic opera in two acts. The libretto was written by Fenouillot de Falbaire (Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey, 1727-1800[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Georges_Fenouillot_de_Falbaire_de_Quingey]) and the music by André Grétry (André Ernest Modeste Grétry , 1741–1813[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gr%C3%A9try]).

== The original text ==

Performed for the King at Fontainebleau on 27 October 1770, and in the Théâtre Italien, Paris, on 6 December 1770.

== South African performances ==

1809 Produced in the original French by the local French amateurs, in Cape Town on 25 March, as afterpiece to ''[[Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard]]'' (Pierre de Marivaux).

== Sources ==

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_deux_avares

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Georges_Fenouillot_de_Falbaire_de_Quingey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gr%C3%A9try

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 125.

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 == South African performances ==
-Produced in the original French by the local [[French Amateur Company]],  in Cape Town on 25 March, as afterpiece to ''[[Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard]]'' (Pierre de Marivaux).
+: Produced in the original French by the local [[French Amateur Company]],  in Cape Town on 25 March, as afterpiece to ''[[Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard]]'' (Pierre de Marivaux).
 == Sources ==