BOIELDIEU: Les deux Nuits

BOIELDIEU: Les deux Nuits 20 May 1829. Paris, O.C. Text by A. E. Scribe and J. N. Bouilly. Three acts. Boieldieu’s last opera. In French also, Liége 1 February 1830; Antwerp 20 May 1831; Brussels 15 December 1831. In English, London, C.G. 17 November 1829 (as The Night before the Wedding, translated by E. Fitzball, music adapted and enlarged by Bishop; see Fitzball’s Memoirs, Vol. I, pp. 183–192; this version was also given at Sydney on 4 May 1874). In German (translated by I. F. Castelli)…