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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1808: 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".)
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1808: Performed in the original French 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 06:24, 11 August 2016

Alexis, ou l'Erreur d'un bon Père is 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

1808: Performed in the original French 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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