John of Paris

John of Paris is a comic opera by Isaac Pocock.

Based on Jean de Paris, an "opéra-comique[1] 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.

== Translations and adaptations ==

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

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: pp. 109, 395

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