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Sancho Pança (opera)

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Sancho Pança dans son isle is a 1762 French-language opera in one act by François-André Danican Philidor to a libretto by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. It premiered at the Comédie-Italienne on 8 July 1762.[1][2]

Recording

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References

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  1. ^ Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages (1931): "... by Poinsinet the Younger and the music by Philidor, Sancho Pança dans son isle, at the Comédie Italienne, July 8, 1762, ...
  2. ^ David Charlton. Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-comique (1986) ISBN 052125129X p. 70: "Grétry's handling of all four is exemplary and forms the best comedy in the genre since Philidor's Sancbo Pança (1762)."
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