Lodoiska

A melodrama in three acts.

There are three versions of this, all based (directly or indirectly)on an episode from Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai’s novel, Les amours du chevalier de Faublas.

Lodoïska is an opera by Luigi Cherubini to a French libretto by Claude-François Fillette-Loraux after an episode from Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai’s novel, Les amours du chevalier de Faublas. It takes the form of a comédie héroïque (a type of opéra comique) in three acts,

Lodoiska; comédie en trois actes, en prose. Paroles de De Jaure (1791) Text by De Jaure and set to music by Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831)

Lodoiska: an opera, in three acts by John Philip Kemble produced an English version called, 1794. The music composed, and selected from Cherubini, Kreutzer, and Andreozzi, by Mr. Storace. Based on the French libretto of Dejaure, 1761-1790. Perfomed, for the first time by His Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, on Monday, June 9th 1794. Printed by G. G. and J. Robinson in 1794.

The English version was first performed in New York on 4 December 1826.

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Facsimile of the 1794 text, Hathi Trust, Internet Archive[1] Facsimile of the 1824 English text, Google eBook[ https://books.google.co.za/books?id=-FxVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8&dq=lodoiska+by+Kemble&source=bl&ots=MBcWIVMOmK&sig=cJKLhHlc1NfKvb6DjlnYv2lxoDk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kuAxVdeGGZOR7Ab__4CoDA&ved=0CD4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=lodoiska%20by%20Kemble&f=false]