Aucassin et Nicolette (Grétry opera)

For the medieval French 'chantefable', see Aucassin and Nicolette.

André Grétry

Operas 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) Andromaque (1780) Colinette à la cour (1782) La caravane du Caire (1783) L'épreuve villageoise (1784) Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784) Pierre le Grand (1790) Guillaume Tell (1791) See also: Operas by Grétry

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 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Palace of Versailles on 30 December 1779 and at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 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.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Première cast, 30 December 1779 (Conductor: - )	Paris cast, 3 January 1780 (Conductor: - )
Nicolette	soprano	Rose-Louise Dugazon	Rose-Louise Dugazon
Aucassin	tenor	Jean-Baptiste Guignard "Clairval"
Vicomte Beaucaire	tenor
Marcou	tenor
Comte Garin	bass
Comte Bongars	bass
Bredau	bass
Shepherd	bass

Sources

Period libretto: Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les Mœurs du bon vieux tems. Comédie, En quatre Actes, en Vers, melée d'Ariettes, Paris, Didot, 1789 (accessible online as a Goggle ebook-gratis)
Casaglia, Gherardo (2005).[http://www.amadeusonline.net/almanacco?r=&alm_testo=Aucassin_et_Nicolette "Aucassin et Nicolette"]. Almanacco Amadeus (Italian).
The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5

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