Le tonnellier
Subtitle: opéra-comique
Contributors: Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823, librettist; Gossec, François Joseph, 1734-1829, composer; Alexandre, Charles-Guillaume, approximately 1735-1787 or 1788, composer; Ciapalanti, active 18th century, composer; Kohault, Joseph, 1736-1793, composer; Philidor, F. D. (François Danican), 1726-1795, composer; Schobert, Johann, -1767, composer; Trial, Jean Claude, 1732-1771, composer; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1765
Place of publication: Paris?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Dramatic music
Work titles: Tonnelier (1765)
Notes: Libretto for an opéra comique (mêlé d'ariettes et de vaudeville) in 1 act.

Title from half title.

Reworking of Audinot's unsuccessful opéra comique of 1761 for which he wrote both words and music; text also by A.-F. Quétant; music is a pasticcio by F.J. Gossec, C.-G. Alexandre, Ciapalanti, J. Kohault, F.-A. D. Philidor, J. Schobert, and J.C. Trial; first performed at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris, 16 March 1765. Cf. New Grove online.

Privilege (p. 56), dated 16 March 1765.

Signatures: pi1 A-C⁸ D⁴.

"Acteurs" with named cast: p. [4]; cast different from that named in the Paris: Chez Duchesne, 1765 edition.

Some airs for solo voice, unaccompanied (set in movable type with black notation): p. 52-56; otherwise, words only of airs throughout text.