Sabinus
Subtitle: tragédie-lyrique, en cinq actes : représentée, devant Sa Majesté, à Versailles, le 4 décembre 1773
By: [les paroles sont de M. *** [i.e. Michel Paul Gui de Chabanon] ; la musique est de M. [François Joseph] Gossec]
Contributors: Chabanon, Michel Paul Gui de, 1730-1792, librettist; Dauberval, 1742-1806, dancer; Gardel, Maximilien, 1741-1787, dancer; Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, dancer; Huault, Jean-Pierre, active 18th century, engraver; Colle, engraver; Ballard, Pierre-Robert-Christophe, 1744-1812, printer; Longin, abbé, former owner; Château de Versailles (Versailles, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de P. Robert-Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur, pour la musique de la chambre & Menus-Plaisirs du roi, & seul imprimeur de la grande chapelle de Sa Majesté
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Ballets
Other titles: Sabinus (Choreographic work)
Work titles: Sabinus
Notes: Without the music by François Joseph Gossec; libretto by Michel Paul Gui de Chabanon after his tragedy Eponine. Cf. Loewenberg.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; many signed Huault; head-piece on p. [49] signed Colle.

Statements of responsibility from t.p. verso.

"Personnages chantans dans les chœurs": p. [3] (1st count); "Personnages dansans": p. [4] (1st count); "Acteurs chantans": p. [8] (1st count); all include performers; listing Dauberbal, M. Gardel, and G. Vestris among the dancers.

Signatures: A⁴ A-C⁸ D⁴ E².

Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera, col. 333

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos, p. 963