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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=FR07AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA311&dq=A+House+to+be+Sold+a++musical+piece+in+two+acts+by+Cobb.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tV9dVZDDHaHa7gaIp4HIBw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=A%20House%20to%20be%20Sold%20a%20%20musical%20piece%20in%20two%20acts%20by%20Cobb.&f=false] | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=FR07AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA311&dq=A+House+to+be+Sold+a++musical+piece+in+two+acts+by+Cobb.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tV9dVZDDHaHa7gaIp4HIBw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=A%20House%20to%20be%20Sold%20a%20%20musical%20piece%20in%20two%20acts%20by%20Cobb.&f=false] | ||
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Maison à Vendre ("House for Sale" -) is a comic opera ("opéra-comique[1]" or "comédie en un acte et en prose, mêlée de chants") in one act by Alexandre Vincent Pineux-Duval (1767-1842), with music by Nicolas Dalayrac (1753-1809).
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The original text
First produced at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique (in the salle Favart) on 23 October, 1800.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as A House to be Sold, and expanded into a musical piece in two acts, by James Cobb (1756-1818), with music by Michael Kelly (1762-1826). This version was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1802, published the same year in London by G. & J. Robinson .
A prose version in English, also called A House to be Sold was done by J.Bayliss and published in 1804, but apparently never acted at the time.
Performance history in South Africa
1818: Performed in English in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 8 August, by the Gentlemen Amateurs (Garrison Players) with the help of Mr Cooke and his company of ladies. Billed as A House to be Sold, a "musical farce", it served as afterpiece to The Tale of Mystery (Holcroft).
Sources
Facsimile version of original French text, Gallica Bibliotèque Numérique, BNF[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Vincent_Pineux_Duval
Auguste Wahlen, Nouveau dictionnaire de la conversation; ou, Répertoire universel. Librairie-Historique-Artistique; 1845[3]
Académie du Var, Toulon. 1934. Bulletin, Volumes 101-105 , p. 107[4]
Facsimile version of the original English translation[5]
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse[6]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [7]: p. 154
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