Le Sicilien ou L'Amour peintre - Molière 1622-1673 (Amsterdam Le Jeune Wettstein, 1689)
One of 10 reprints of Molière's works, collected in a box
Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre is a one-act comedy-ballet, with music by Lully.This play, a precursor of the style known as opéra-comique, combines song, dance and comedy. Jean Baptiste Lully is said to have produced here his "best musical score [... thanks to] a happy balance between alternating musical interludes, the spoken word, the sung word and the vocal ensembles ".The first performance of this work was given on 5 January 1667 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.When the play was revived at La Comédie Française on 9 June 1679, Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed the music , and on 10 March 1780, the music was composed by Antoine Dauvergne.Camille Saint-Saëns composed the incidental music for the re-creation on 30 May 1892 at the Théatre français in Paris.
Dom Garcie de Navarre, ou Le prince jalouxGeorge Dandin ou Le mari confonduL'Escole des femmesL'Escole des marisLa Comtesse d'EscarbagnasLa Princesse d'Élide ensemble les plaisirs de l'isle enchantéeLe Mariage forcéLes Amans magnifiques. Comédie meslée de musique et d'entrées de balletMélicerte. Comédie pastorale héroique
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Play (theater); Ballet; France