Les deux Avares

("The Two Misers") An "opéra bouffon" or comic opera in two acts. The libretto written Fenouillot de Falbaire (Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey) and music by André Grétry (1770).

Performed with success in 1770 at Fontainebleau and in Paris. Fontainebleau, devant Sa Majesté, 27 octobre et 7 novembre 1770 ; Paris, Théâtre Italien, 6 décembre 1770

South African performances

1809 Produced in the original French by the local French amateurs, , on 25 March, 1809, as afterpiece to Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard (Pierre de Marivaux) .

Sources

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

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Georges_Fenouillot_de_Falbaire_de_Quingey

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp125.

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