L’épreuve villageoise

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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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L’épreuve villageoise 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.

[edit] Performance history

L’épreuve villageoise was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris on 24 June 1784. It became one of the Grétry's most popular opéra-comiques during the 19th century.

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