Le Rendez-vous

Le Rendez-vous is a French a one-act operetta in verse by Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan (1702-1755)[1].

Also known as Le Rendez-vous, ou l'Amour Suppose

Not to be confused with Les Rendez-vous Bourgeois, an opéra bouffon in one act by Nicolas Isouard and François Benoît Hoffmann, first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Feydeau in Paris on 9 May 1807.

The original text

First performed in Paris on 27 May 1733 at the Théâtre Français. Published in Paris by Chaubert in 1733 and in the collected works of Fagan in 1760.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as The Rendezvous (or Rendezvous, or Love in All Corners) by Richard Ayton. First Performed at the Theatre Royal, English Opera, in September, 1818, and became extremely popular for most of the 109th and early 20th centuries. Published by S. French, 1818, I. Riley in 1818?, by John Cumberland

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

Fagan. 1760. Théâtre de m. Fagan, et autres oeuvres du mesme auteur. (Le rendez-vous. La grondeuse. La pupille. L'amitié rivale. Jaconde. Le musulman), N. B. Duchesne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy-Christophe_Fagan

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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