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| − | ''[[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)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Joseph_Floquet], | + | ''[[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)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Joseph_Floquet], with a libretto by Pierre-René Lemmonier (1731-1796)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Ren%C3%A9_Lemonnier]. |
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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], with a libretto by Pierre-René Lemmonier (1731-1796)[2].
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, published Paris, Delormel, 1773 and Bailard, 1774.
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
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