Alexis, ou l'Erreur d'un bon Père

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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).


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, as 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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