Silvain
Subtitle: comédie en un acte, mêlée d'ariettes
By: par M. Marmontel, de l'Académie françoise ; la musique est de M. Grétry : représenté [sic] pour la premire [sic] fois par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du roi, le 19 février 1770
Contributors: Marmontel, Jean-François, 1723-1799, librettist; Trial, Antoine, 1737-1795, performer; Trial, Marie-Jeanne, 1746-1818, performer; Beugnet, Jean, -1803, engraver; Merlin, Joseph, 1718-1783, bookseller; Simon, veuve, -1772, printer; Bertheley, François Nicolas Félix, former owner; Galloway, Anne, Countess Dowager of, former owner; Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Merlin, rue de la Harpe, à S. Joseph
Published: 1770
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Sylvain.
Work titles: Silvain
Notes: Libretto by Marmontel after Gessner's Erast; first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne; alternate orthography of title: Sylvain. Cf. Wild.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; head-piece on p. [3] signed Beugnet.

Printer from colophon.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces (some signed by Beugnet).

"Acteurs": t.p. verso; includes performers; lists M. Trial in role of Dolmon; lists Madame Trial in role of Pauline.

"Ariettes de Silvain": p. [47]-55; includes music (set in movable type).

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴.

Last p. blank.

RISM A/I, G 4441

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos, p. 1007

Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera, col. 310

Wild, N. Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 1649