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'''See ''[[Jean de Paris]]'''''
 
'''See ''[[Jean de Paris]]'''''
  
''[[Jean de Paris]]'' is a French "opéra-comique[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique] en deux actes", with a libretto by Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just
 
and music by François-Adrien Boieldieu.
 
  
 
== The original text ==
 
 
The play premiered at Le Theatre de l’Opera-Comique on 4 April, 1812.
 
 
==Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
Translated into English as ''[[John of Paris]]'' by Isaac Pocock, and was first produced at Covent Garden on 12 October 1814,where it was performed seventeen times, then revived at the Haymarket in 1826, and again played at Covent Garden in 1835.
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1847: The English version performed as one of the afterpieces to  ''[[The Smuggler's Daughter]]'' (Dibden) in the [[Amateur Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[90th Light Infantry]] on Friday, 30th April.
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Adrien_Boieldieu
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.  109, 395
 
  
 
Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 05:24, 8 January 2016

John of Paris is a comic opera by Isaac Pocock, based on Jean de Paris by Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just and François-Adrien Boieldieu.

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