Les mariages samnites
Les Mariages samnites is an opéra comique, described as a drame lyrique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Barnabé Farmian Durosoy based on a work by Jean François Marmontel.
Performance history
It was first performed on 12 June 1776 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.Roles
Period sources
- Original libretto: Les Mariages Samnites, Drame lyrique en 3 Actes et en Prose, Paris, Duchesne, 1776
Modern sources
- Michel Brenet Grétry: sa vie et ses œuvres
- David Charlton Grétry and the Growth of Opéra Comique
- Ronald Lessens Grétry ou Le triomphe de l'Opéra-Comique Mariages samnites, Les by Michael Fend, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie
- Kutsch, K. J. and Riemens, Leo. Großes Sängerlexikon. Munich: K. G. Saur..