Lodoiska

A melodrama (opera) 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 (Paris, 1787).

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, a prose comedy in three acts, by De Jaure (1761-1790) and set to music by Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831). Performed and published in Paris, 1791.

Lodoiska an opera in three acts by John Philip Kemble. (The second edition has the title as: Songs in Lodoiska, a musical romance"). 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.

Sources

http://www.amazon.com/Lodoiska-performed-Majestys-Cherubini-Andreozzi/dp/117098388X

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodo%C3%AFska http://writersinspire.org/content/lodoiska-opera-three-acts-perfomed-first-time-his-majestys-servants-theatre-royal-drury-lane

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]