L'épreuve villageoise
Music by André Grétry · libretto by Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges · premiered 1784 · at Comédie-Italienne
L’épreuve villageoise (Trial in a Village) is an opéra bouffon in two acts by André Grétry to a French libretto by Pierre Desforges. It is a revision of a work called Théodore et Paulin, which was performed once at Versailles on 5 March 1784 but never published.
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About the Composer
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (French: [gʁɛtʁi]; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous for his opéras comiques. His music influenced Mozart and Beethoven both of whom wrote variations on his works.
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Other Operas by André Grétry
- Guillaume Tell
- Le tableau parlant
- Les mariages samnites
- Andromaque (1735)
- Lucile (1769)
- Céphale et Procris (1773)
- Le magnifique (1773)
- L'amant jaloux (1778)