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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | 1808: Performed in the original French on 28 May by [[Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap]] in the [[Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre]] (i.e. "French Amateur Theatre"), Cape Town | + | 1808: Performed in the original French on 28 May by [[Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap]] in the [[Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre]] (i.e. "French Amateur Theatre"), Cape Town. The author is wrongly given by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] or his source as "Marsollier '''and''' Vivetières". Played as an afterpiece to ''[[L'Opéra-Comique assiégé]]'' (Gillier, Lesage and d'Orneval). |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:38, 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).
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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 on 28 May by Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap in the Fransche Liefhebbery Theatre (i.e. "French Amateur Theatre"), Cape Town. The author is wrongly given by Bosman or his source as "Marsollier and Vivetières". Played as an afterpiece to L'Opéra-Comique assiégé (Gillier, Lesage and d'Orneval).
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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