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''[[The Reformed Drunkard]]'' is an English translation of ''[[Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold]]'', German comic opera in two parts, by Christof Willibald Gluck.
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''[[The Reformed Drunkard]]'' is an English translation of ''[[Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold]]'', itself the German version of the French opera comique[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique] ''[[L'Ivrogne Corrige (ou Le Mariage du Diable)]]'' by Louis Anseaume (1721-1784) and Christof Willibald Gluck, first performed in Vienna in 1760.  
 
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a comic opera in two parts, with text by Louis Anseaume and music by Christof Willibald Gluck.
Music
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
Based on the opera comique[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique] ''[[L'Ivrogne Corrige]]'' by Louis Anseaume, Gluck's version is also known as ''[[Le Mariage Du Diable]]''
 
Original title ''[[Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold]]''.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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http://www.theatertexte.de/nav/2/2/3/werk?verlag_id=baerenreiter&wid=5431064&ebex3=3
  
 
Programme notes of student production in 1995.
 
Programme notes of student production in 1995.

Revision as of 06:27, 8 January 2016

The Reformed Drunkard is an English translation of Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold, itself the German version of the French opera comique[[1] L'Ivrogne Corrige (ou Le Mariage du Diable) by Louis Anseaume (1721-1784) and Christof Willibald Gluck, first performed in Vienna in 1760. a comic opera in two parts, with text by Louis Anseaume and music by Christof Willibald Gluck.

Performance history in South Africa

1995: Performed in English by students of the University of Witwatersrand, directed by Emma Renzi.


Sources

http://www.theatertexte.de/nav/2/2/3/werk?verlag_id=baerenreiter&wid=5431064&ebex3=3

Programme notes of student production in 1995.

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