Silvaan. Zangspel - Marmontel, Jean-François 1723-1799; Asschenberg, Harmanus 1726-1792 (Amsterdam Helders Mars, 1783)
contains manuscript role list of actors/singerd involved in the Amsterdam Schouwburg productions of 1792 and 1795
The plot concerns Silvain, who works as a poor farmer after being disinherited by his rich father for marrying a lower-class woman. The pastoral theme and its celebration of rural life was common in opéra-comique of the time but Marmontel's libretto goes much further in advocating social equality and defending the rights of peasants against the encroachment of landowners.
Originally 'Silvain' (comédie en un acte, mêlé d'ariettes, Paris, 1770), premiered with music by André Grétry
Ex libris A. Van Lier (Stamp)
Ex libris A. van Ryneveld (manuscript)
Keywords: Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste -- 1741-1813; Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam (Netherlands); Libretto; Opera; Amsterdam (Netherlands); opera in Nederland; tekst; Grieks; Ruloffs, B