Lodoiska

A theatrical work in three acts, variously referred to as an opera, a musical drama or a melodrama.

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 Italian 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 by John Philip Kemble, referred to as an opera in three acts" in most publications. (Though 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 De Jaure, rather than the Cherubini opera. 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]