Belle Arsène. Libretto. Libretto. Dutch
Summary
naar het fransch gevolgd van Favart, door Bartholomeus Ruloffs. (statement of responsibility)
U.S. RISM Libretto Project.
Three acts; half title--leaf 1 recto; quotations from Horace and Voltaire--verso of title page; translator's dedicatory poem--leaf 3 verso-leaf 4 recto; approval of the authorities and statement of authentication--p. [1] at end.
Monsigny's Belle Arsène performed in a Dutch translation by B. Ruloffs in Amsterdam in 1788--Loewenberg.
"[Ruloffs] translated, and inserted his own music into, many French opéras comiques, including ... Monsigny's La belle Arsène ('De schoone Arsène,' 1789)"--New Grove, v. 16, p. 328.
"Met privilegie"--title page.
"Toewying aan de wel-edelgeboren vrouwe Johanna Maria Witsen, echtgenoote van den wel-edelen gestrengen heere Mr. Anne Willem Straalman, eerste raad, drossaard en dykgraaf der stad en des graafschaps Cuilenburg"--leaf 3 recto and verso.
Performers' names not given.
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