De schoone Arsène
Subtitle: zangspel, met balletten
By: naar het fransch gevolgd van Favart, door Bartholomeus Ruloffs
Contributors: Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, 1729-1817
Publisher: By J. Helders, en A Mars, in de Nes
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Te Amsteldam
Language: dut
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Librettos; Operas
Work titles: Belle Arsène. Libretto. Dutch
Notes: U.S. RISM Libretto Project.

Three acts; half title--leaf 1 recto; quotations from Horace and Voltaire--verso of title page; translator's dedicatory poem--leaf 3 verso-leaf 4 recto; approval of the authorities and statement of authentication--p. [1] at end.

Monsigny's Belle Arsène performed in a Dutch translation by B. Ruloffs in Amsterdam in 1788--Loewenberg.

"[Ruloffs] translated, and inserted his own music into, many French opéras comiques, including ... Monsigny's La belle Arsène ('De schoone Arsène,' 1789)"--New Grove, v. 16, p. 328.

"Met privilegie"--title page.

"Toewying aan de wel-edelgeboren vrouwe Johanna Maria Witsen, echtgenoote van den wel-edelen gestrengen heere Mr. Anne Willem Straalman, eerste raad, drossaard en dykgraaf der stad en des graafschaps Cuilenburg"--leaf 3 recto and verso.

Performers' names not given.