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''[[Le Nid d'Amour]]'' ("The love nest" or ''[[Het Liedenest]]'' in its [[Dutch]] translation), is a theatrical work of uncertain origin, performed as a "new ballet and anacréontique" in Cape Town in 1810, with music by a local composer.  
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''[[Le Nid d'Amour]]'' ("The love nest" or ''[[Het Liefdenest]]'' in its [[Dutch]] translation), is a theatrical work of uncertain origin, performed as a "new ballet and anacréontique" in Cape Town in 1810, with music by a local composer.  
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==

Revision as of 09:29, 31 December 2015

Le Nid d'Amour ("The love nest" or Het Liefdenest in its Dutch translation), is a theatrical work of uncertain origin, performed as a "new ballet and anacréontique" in Cape Town in 1810, with music by a local composer.

The original text

A work entitled Le Nid d’Amours, ou Les Amours Vengés by composer Jacques-André Gaultier, and choreographer Eugène Hus (Pierre-Louis Stapleton, 1758 –1823)[1] is listed as an opera in . It was performed in Paris in 1798. It may have served as inspiration. Possibly a later version of the work, now entitled Le Nid d’Amours, ou Les Amours Vengés was performed as a "ballet anacréontique" by Eugène Hus at the Théâtre Royal, Bruxelles, 9 March 1818. Published in Brussels by L. Poublon, 1818.

In view of the latter title, another good candidate seems to be a one act ballet anacréontique-pantomime by M. Beaudry entitled L’Amour du Venge, which was performed at the Théâtre de Versailles, 21 June 1810 and published by J-P Jacob, Versailles, 1810.

Translations and adaptations

Le Nid d'Amour, an opéra comique in one act by Jean Baptiste Edouard Montaubry opened in Paris in 1885.

South African performances

1810: Performed in Cape Town in Dutch (as Het Liefdenest) , with new music composed by L. Meurant, performed in Cape Town as an afterpiece to Le Somnambule ou Orgia (Pont-de-Vesle), by the pupils of J. Riaux on 13 October 1810.

1810: Repeated by the same company, but apparently in French as Le Nid d'Amour this time, on 27 October, as an afterpiece to Le Baiser (Florian).


Sources

Jean-Philippe Van Aelbrouck, 1994. Dictionnaire des danseurs: chorégraphes et maîtres de danse à Bruxelles de 1600 à 1830[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Hus

http://operadata.stanford.edu/?f%5BlibrettistSort_facet%5D%5B%5D=Hus%2C+Eug%C3%A8ne+%5BPierre-Louis+Staupleton%5D

http://operadata.stanford.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&f%5Bcity_facet%5D%5B%5D=Paris&f%5BcomposerSort_query%5D%5B%5D=g_composers&per_page=50&sort=composerSort_sort+asc%2C+titleSort_sort+asc&search_field=all_fields&q=Le+Nid+d%27Amour

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[3]: pp. 129

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