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French play in five acts,  
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''[[Asmodée, ou La Philosophie du Díable]]'' is a French opera comique performed in Cape Town on 15 July 1811 by the teacher [[François Agron]] with his young students (under 14 years of age).
  
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No text or reference to such a play can be found, and [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: p. 129) suggests that this may possibly have been a translated version of  for performance in South Africa.
  
Possibly a translation of or based on ''[[Asmodeus der Krumme Teufel]]'', an opera comique[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique] in three  acts by Joseph Felix freiherr von Kurz (1770-1784)[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Felix_von_Kurz].
 
  
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
 
1811: Produced in Cape Town on 15 July 1811 in French by the teacher [[François Agron]] with his young students (under 14 years of age).
 
  
  

Revision as of 17:47, 8 January 2016

Asmodée, ou La Philosophie du Díable is a French opera comique performed in Cape Town on 15 July 1811 by the teacher François Agron with his young students (under 14 years of age).

No text or reference to such a play can be found, and F.C.L. Bosman (1928[1]: p. 129) suggests that this may possibly have been a translated version of for performance in South Africa.



Sources

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Asmodeus_der_krumme_Teufel.html?id=PM25mwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p129.

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