Le tonnelier
Subtitle: opera-comique, meslé d'ariettes : représenté par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du Roi, le 16 mars 1765, & à Bruxelles le 20 avril 1767
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; Duchesne, veuve, printer; Ingilby, John, 1790-1870, former owner; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Edition: Nouvelle édition, augmentée.
Publisher: Chez la Veuve Duchesne ... , rue St. Jacques, au dessous de la Fontaine St Benoît, au Temple du Goût
Published: 1770
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Dramatic music
Work titles: Tonnelier (1765)
Notes: Libretto for an opéra comique (mêslé d'ariettes et de vaudeville) in 1 act.

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. See Grove music online (WWW site, 19 September 2009).

Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴ D².

"Acteurs" without named cast: p. [2].

Music for the vaudeville and three airs, for solo voice, unaccompanied (set in movable type): p. 39-44; otherwise, words only of airs throughout text.

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos, v. 1, p. 1084