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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
Performed in the original French,  simply as an "Opéra Comique" by the [[French Theatrical Company]] ([[Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre]] , i.e. "French Amateur Theatre") in the [[African Theatre]] in Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[L'Opéra-Comique assiégé]]''  on 28 May 1808. (The author wrongly given by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928, as "Marsollier en [and] Vivetières".)
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Performed in the original French,  simply as an "Opéra Comique" by the [[French Theatrical Company]] (also referred to in [[Dutch]] as [[Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre]] , i.e. "French Amateur Theatre") in the [[African Theatre]] in Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[L'Opéra-Comique assiégé]]''  on 28 May 1808. (The author wrongly given by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928, as "Marsollier en [and] Vivetières".)
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 10:39, 13 July 2014

An "opéra comique", in one act by librettist Benoît Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières (1750-1817) and composer Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac (1753-1809).


Original text

First performed in the Théâtre Feydeau 24 January, 1798 ("Représentée sur le théâtre Feydeau, le 5 pluviôse, an 6 de la République").

Published by Maradan, 1803.


Performance history in South Africa

Performed in the original French, simply as an "Opéra Comique" by the French Theatrical Company (also referred to in Dutch as Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre , i.e. "French Amateur Theatre") in the African Theatre in Cape Town, as afterpiece to L'Opéra-Comique assiégé on 28 May 1808. (The author wrongly given by Bosman, 1928, as "Marsollier en [and] Vivetières".)

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/empire/id/9494

Internet Archive: Alexis, ou l'Erreur d'un bon Père[1]

Bosman, 1928: p.93.

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