Difference between revisions of "L'Union de l'Amour et Des Arts"
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== Performances in South Africa == | == Performances in South Africa == | ||
| − | 1809: Act 3 of the work was performed in French as ''[[Les Troubadours]]'' by the [[French Company]] led by [[Charles Etienne Boniface]], on 7 April in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town, with ''[[La Paysanne Curieuse]]'' (Framery) and . | + | 1809: Act 3 of the work was performed in French as ''[[Les Troubadours]]'' by the [[French Company]] led by [[Charles Etienne Boniface]], on 7 April in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town, with ''[[La Paysanne Curieuse]]'' (Framery) and ''[[Le Projet Manque]]'' (Desfontaines, Barré and Radet). |
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Revision as of 10:12, 28 December 2015
L'Union de l'Amour et Des Arts is an "opéra-ballet" (also referred to as a Ballet héroïque") in three acts by Étienne Joseph Floquet (1748-1785)[1], based on a book by Pierre-René Lemmonier.
The original text
The three acts of the operatic work are: "Bathilde et Chloë", "Théodore", "La cour d'Amour ou Les troubadours", and they were apparently sometimes performed singly.
First performed in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique, on 7 September, 1773
Performances in South Africa
1809: Act 3 of the work was performed in French as Les Troubadours by the French Company led by Charles Etienne Boniface, on 7 April in the African Theatre, Cape Town, with La Paysanne Curieuse (Framery) and Le Projet Manque (Desfontaines, Barré and Radet).
Sources
http://data.bnf.fr/14820726/etienne_joseph_floquet_l_union_de_l_amour_et_des_arts/
