Colinette à la cour

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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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Colinette à la cour, ou La double épreuve, is an opéra comique (designated as a comédie lyrique) in three acts written by André Grétry in 1782 to a French libretto by Jean-Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre, based on Charles Simon Favart’s Ninette à la cour.

[edit] Performance history

It was first performed at Académie Royale de Musique, Paris in 1 January 1782.

[edit] Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, January 1, 1782
(Conductor: - )
Alphonse tenor
Amelie soprano
Bastien bass
Colinette soprano
Julien bass
Justine soprano
Mathurine soprano

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