La parodie au Parnasse
Subtitle: opera-comique en un acte : représenté pour la premiere fois sur le Théâtre de l'Opera-Comique de la Foire Saint Germain, le 20 mars 1759 ...
Contributors: Duchesne, Nicolas-Bonaventure, 1711?-1765, printer; Théâtre de la Foire Saint-Germain; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Duchesne ... , rue S. Jacques, au-dessous de la Fontaine S. Benoît, au Temple du Goût
Published: 1759
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Barrière du Parnasse
Notes: Libretto for an opéra comique en vaudevilles.

Text attributed to C.-S. Favart; composer/arranger unknown (Favart?). Cf. Grove music online.

Originally performed at the Théâtre de la Foire Saint-German, 7 April 1740, under title Barrière du Parnasse, ou, La muse chansonnière; this performance, in 1759, with new title, an unauthorized revision. Cf. Grove music online.

Last page is blank.

"Le prix est de 24 sols avec la Musique."

Three lines from Horace's Ars Poetica on t.p.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴.

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

Four airs for unacc. solo voice, printed with movable type: p. 50-53; otherwise airs noted by title throughout text.

Advertisements on p. [1]-[2] (2nd group).

Brenner, C.D. French plays, 1700-1789 (1947), 6294

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos, I, p. 849