John of Paris

by Isaac Pocock. A comic opera

Based on Jean de Paris, an "opéra-comique en deux actes" with a libretto by Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just and music by François-Adrien Boieldieu. Premiered at Le Theatre de l’Opera-Comique on 4 April, 1812.

The English version by Isaac Pocock, was produced at Covent Garden on 12 October 1814, and performed seventeen times, then revived at the Haymarket in 1826, and again played at Covent Garden in 1835.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed as one of the afterpieces to The Smuggler's Daughter (Dibden) in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, by the 90th Light Infantry

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Adrien_Boieldieu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock

Bosman, 1928: pp 395

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