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, in Cape Town 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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