Colinette à la cour
A three-act French comédie lyrique by André Grétry and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, based on Charles Simon Favart’s Ninette à la cour.
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A three-act French comédie lyrique by André Grétry and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, based on Charles Simon Favart’s Ninette à la cour.
A sung-through comic ballet/opera based on the Don Quixote episode in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool Don Quixote.
A sung-through comic ballet based on an episode of Don Quixote in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool the knight.
The page documents the work’s musical and theatrical revisions but provides no plot synopsis.
A three-act comedy with ariettes inspired by the rosière festival tradition of the French village of Salency. André Grétry later presented a new version with a reworked libretto in 1774.
A French opéra comique, first presented in three acts and later revised into four.
A three-act French comédie lyrique by André Grétry and Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, based on Charles Simon Favart’s Ninette à la cour.
A sung-through comic ballet/opera based on the Don Quixote episode in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool Don Quixote.
A sung-through comic ballet based on an episode of Don Quixote in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool the knight.
The page documents the work’s musical and theatrical revisions but provides no plot synopsis.
A three-act comedy with ariettes inspired by the rosière festival tradition of the French village of Salency. André Grétry later presented a new version with a reworked libretto in 1774.
A French opéra comique, first presented in three acts and later revised into four.
Knight Robert is imprisoned in a seventh-century French court controlled by women and must answer the question of what gives women the most pleasure. He must agree to marry an old woman, who is transformed into the beautiful Marton.
Queen Ginevra of England sends the knight Lisuart to find her missing daughter Dariolette. During his quest, Lisuart must answer the riddle: “What gives women the most pleasure?”
Peasant girl Lottchen flirts with Count Astolph to teach her fiancé Jürgen a lesson. She then joins with Countess Emilie to teach both men a lesson.
One-act German Singspiel adapted from Annette et Lubin. The underlying story concerns two orphaned cousins who fall in love and seek permission to marry; this entry does not describe how the opera handles that story.