Raton et Rosette, ou, La vengeance inutile
Subtitle: parodie de Titon et l'Aurore : representée pour la premiere fois, par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du Roi, le mercredi 28 mars 1753
Contributors: Mondonville, Jean Joseph Cassanea de, 1711-1772, composer; Sodi, Carlo, 1715-1788, composer; Delormel, veuve, -1760, publisher; Prault, Laurent François, 1712-1780, publisher; Raben, Otto Ludvig, 1730-1791, former owner; Raben, Frederik Christian, 1769-1838, former owner; Mondonville, Jean Joseph Cassanea de, 1711-1772; La Mare, abbé de, approximately 1708-1746; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne (Paris, France); Grevskabet Christiansholm; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez la veuve Delormel & fils, rue du Foin, à l'Image Sainte Geneviéve, et Prault fils, Quai de Conti
Published: 1753
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; French Parodies; Parodies, imitations
Other titles: Vengeance inutile
Notes: Libretto for an opéra comique, a parody of La Mare's libretto for Mondonville's pastorale-héroïque, Titon et l'Aurore--Cf. New Grove opera.

Text by C.-S. Favart; music by Mondonville from the original opera and perhaps also by C. Sodi. Cf. Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera.

Performed at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne.

Signatures: A-D⁸.

"Prix 30 sols, avec les Airs notés."

"Acteurs" with named cast: p. [2] (1st group).

"Approbation"--P. [1] (2nd group); pages [2]-[3] (2nd group) are blank.

"Airs de la parodie de Titon et l'Aurore" (15 melodies, some with French texts): p. 1-12 of engraved plates at end.

Includes stage directions.