Les deux Avares

("The Two Misers") An "opéra bouffon" or comic opera in two acts. The libretto written Fenouillot de Falbaire (Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey) and music by André Grétry (1770).

Performed with success in 1770 at Fontainebleau and in Paris.

South African performances

1809 Produced in the original French by the local French amateurs, , on 25 March, 1809, as afterpiece to Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard (Pierre de Marivaux) .

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_deux_avares

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Georges_Fenouillot_de_Falbaire_de_Quingey

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp125.

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