Les moissonneurs
Subtitle: comédie en trois actes et en vers, meslée d'ariettes ... représentée pour la premiere fois par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du roi, le 27 janvier 1768
By: par M. Favart ; la musique est de M. Duni
Contributors: Favart, M. (Charles-Simon), 1710-1792, librettist; Favart, Mme (Marie-Justine-Benoîte), 1727-1772, performer; Trial, Antoine, 1737-1795, performer; Colle, engraver; Duchesne, veuve, bookseller; Bertheley, François Nicolas Félix, former owner; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez la veuve Duchesne, libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, au Temple du Goût
Published: 1768
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Dramatic music
Other titles: Bible. Ruth.
Work titles: Moissonneurs
Notes: Music by Egidio Duni; libretto by Charles-Simon Favart after the book of Ruth; first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne. Cf. CÉSAR; Wild.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; most head-pieces signed Colle.

"Avertissement": p. [3].

"Acteurs": p. [4]; includes performers; lists Mme. Favart in role of Gennevote, M. Trial in role of Pierre.

Includes music (black notation, set in movable type) on p. 86-87.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [89]-[92].

Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁶ (A2 missigned A3).

Not in Sonneck.

RISM A/I, D 3771

Wild, N. Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 1226