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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
The three acts of the operatic work are: "Bathilde et Chloë", "Théodore", "[[La Cour d'Amour, ou Les Troubadours]]", and they were apparently sometimes performed singly.  
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The three acts of the operatic work are: "Bathilde et Chloë", "Théodore", "[[La Cour d'Amour, ou Les Troubadours]]", and they were sometimes performed singly.  
  
 
First performed in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique, on 7 September, 1773
 
First performed in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique, on 7 September, 1773

Revision as of 10:57, 28 December 2015

L'Union de l'Amour et Des Arts is an "opéra-ballet" (also referred to as a Ballet héroïque") in three acts by Étienne Joseph Floquet (1748-1785)[1], based on a book by Pierre-René Lemmonier.


The original text

The three acts of the operatic work are: "Bathilde et Chloë", "Théodore", "La Cour d'Amour, ou Les Troubadours", and they were sometimes performed singly.

First performed in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique, on 7 September, 1773

Performances in South Africa

1809: Act 3 of the work was performed in French as Les Troubadours by the French Company led by Charles Etienne Boniface, on 7 April in the African Theatre, Cape Town, with La Paysanne Curieuse (Framery) and Le Projet Manque (Desfontaines, Barré and Radet).

Sources

http://data.bnf.fr/14820726/etienne_joseph_floquet_l_union_de_l_amour_et_des_arts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Joseph_Floquet

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9062748t