L'amoureux de quinze ans, ou, La double fête
Subtitle: comédie en trois actes et en prose, mêlée d'ariettes : représentée devant Sa Majesté, à Fontainebleau, le 12 octobre 1771
By: [les paroles sont de M. Laujon, Secrétaire des commandemens de S.A.S. M. le Prince de Bourbon ; la musique de M. Martiny [i.e. Martini] ; les ballets sont de la composition de M. Laval, compositeur des ballets de Sa Majesté]
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roi pour la musique, & noteur de la chapelle de Sa Majesté
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Ballets
Other titles: Double fête; Amoureux de quinze ans (Choreographic work : Laval)
Work titles: Amoureux de quinze ans
Notes: First performed in Chantilly for the marriage of the Duc de Bourbon, 1770; performed in Paris by the Comédie-Italienne at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, 18 April 1771. Cf. Grove music online.

Statements of responsibility from t.p. verso.

"Acteurs": p. [3]; includes performers; lists la Dlle. Trial in role of Lindor, le Sr. La Ruette [i.e. Laruette] in role of M. Dupuis, le Sr. Trial in role of Thomas; "Personnages dansans": p. [4]; includes performers.

Includes stage directions.

Includes frontispiece depicting a scene from the opera, engraved by A.J. Duclos after a design by H. Gravelot.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; most head- and tail-pieces signed B. or Beugnet.

Printer from colophon.

Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴.

Not in Sonneck.

Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera, col. 318

Wild, N. Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 68

Gift; Harry S. Grew; 1951 April 9; 50-1634.

Deposit; John Milton Ward; 2006 April 12; 2005TW-1370.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

No. 5 in 3rd volume of a 4-volume collection of French librettos, published 1758-1772.

Trimmed to 20 cm.

Bound in modern blue cloth.

Stitched in contemporary gilt wrappers; in case, 27 cm.

Bound in contemporary brown calf with gilt-stamped title Pieces de theatre Tom III on red sheep spine labels.

Bound in 20th century multicolored marbled wrappers; in prefab, 22 cm.