La Cigale

La Cigale ("The grasshopper") is a French comedy in three acts by Henri Meilhac (1830–1897)[1] and Ludovic Halevy (1834–1908)[2].

First performed in French at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris, 6 October, 1877. Apparently Degas collaborated as scene painter on the production.

Translated into English and adapted as The Grasshopper by John Hollingshead and performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1877.

Published again by the British Library, Historical Print Editions (February 15, 2011)[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Meilhac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic_Hal%C3%A9vy

https://www.amazon.com/Grasshopper-comic-Translated-French-Cigale/dp/1241057796

Anna Gruetzner Robins (Ed.). 2000. Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art. Oxford University Press: P. 11, footnote 1. [4]

Theodore Reff. 1970. "Degas and the Literature of His Time" - II. The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 811 (October), pp. 674+677-688.