Aucassin et Nicolette (opera)

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For the medieval French 'chantefable', see Aucassin and Nicolette.
Operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry

Le Huron (1767)
Les mariages samnites (1768)
Lucile (1769)
Le tableau parlant (1769)
Les deux avares(1770)
Zémire et Azor (1771)
Le jugement de Midas (1778)
L'amant jaloux (1778)
Aucassin et Nicolette (1779)
 Colinette à la cour (1782)
L’épreuve villageoise (1782)
La caravane du Caire (1783)
Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784)
Pierre le Grand (1790)
Guillaume Tell (1791)
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Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les moeurs du bon vieux tems is a French comédie mise en musique in four acts by André Grétry. The work was first performed at Versailles on 30 November 1779 and at the Comédie-Italienne. Paris, on 3 January 1780.

The libretto was by Michel-Jean Sedaine after the early medievalist Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye's Les amours du bon vieux tems.

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  • The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
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