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''[[The Reformed Drunkard]]'' is an English translation of ''[[Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold]]'', itself the German version of the French ''opera comique''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique],  ''[[L'Ivrogne Corrige (ou Le Mariage du Diable)]]'',  a work in two parts, with a libretto  by Louis Anseaume (1721-1784)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Anseaume] and music by Christof Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Willibald_Gluck], first performed in Vienna in 1760.  
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''[[The Reformed Drunkard]]'' is an English translation of ''[[Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold]]'', itself the German version of the French ''opera comique''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique],  ''[[L'Ivrogne Corrige ou Le Mariage du Diable]]'',  a work in two parts, with music by Christof Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Willibald_Gluck], and a a libretto  by Louis Anseaume (1721-1784)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Anseaume] and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre.  First performed in the Burgtheater, Vienna in 1760.  
  
  
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Revision as of 11:07, 8 January 2016

The Reformed Drunkard is an English translation of Die Bekehrte Trunkenbold, itself the German version of the French opera comique[1], L'Ivrogne Corrige ou Le Mariage du Diable, a work in two parts, with music by Christof Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)[2], and a a libretto by Louis Anseaume (1721-1784)[3] and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre. First performed in the Burgtheater, Vienna in 1760.


Performance history in South Africa

1995: Performed in English by students of the Opera School, University of the Witwatersrand, directed by Emma Renzi[4].

Sources

http://www.theatertexte.de/nav/2/2/3/werk?verlag_id=baerenreiter&wid=5431064&ebex3=3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Gluck

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Renzi

Programme notes of student production in 1995.

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