Le Baiser

Full title in French, Le baiser, ou La bonne fée, an "opéra-comique" in three acts, with a libretto by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755-1794), and compositions by Stanislas Champein (1753-1830)

The original text

First performed in Paris at the Comédie Italienne on 26 November 1781.

First published Paris : Lawalle L'Écuyer, 1784, revised before 1813 and again 1823-1824.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed in Cape Town by the pupils of J. Riaux on 27 October 1810, with as afterpiece Het Liefdenest.

Sources

http://data.bnf.fr/11902963/jean-pierre_claris_de_florian/

http://www.worldcat.org/title/baiser-comedie-en-deux-actes-et-en-vers-melee-dariettes/oclc/468661573

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