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A comic opera (opéra-comique or opéra-bouffon) by Louis Anseaume ( 1721-1784) and Egidio Duni (1708-1775).  
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A comic opera (''opéra-comique''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_comique]  or ''opéra-bouffon'') by Louis Anseaume ( 1721-1784) and Egidio Duni (1708-1775).  
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==

Revision as of 06:28, 9 January 2016

A comic opera (opéra-comique[1] or opéra-bouffon) by Louis Anseaume ( 1721-1784) and Egidio Duni (1708-1775).

The original text

The play was first presented at the Théâtre-Italien, Hôtel de Bourgogne, on 23 July 1763. Published in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Translated by J.T. Neyts as De Twee Jagers en het Melk-meysje and printed thus by B.Vlam in Amsterdam in 1770. However, the title is quoted in all later publications as De Twee Jagers en het Melkmeisje.

Performance history in South Africa

1824: Performed in French by Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 29 May , as afterpiece to De Verwarde Schaking (Von Kotzebue).

1835: Performed twice in Cape Town by the children's company Kunst en Smaak as De Twee Jagers en het Melkmeisje with De Kluizenaar op Formentera (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece. The second performance was on 30 June.

Sources

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Deux_Chasseurs_et_la_Laiti%C3%A8re

Facsimile of original Dutch text(Google E-Book)[2]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 270,

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