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L'ami de la maison (The Family Friend) is an opéra comique by André Grétry first performed at Fontainebleau on 26 October 1771. It takes the form of a comédie in three acts. The French libretto is by Jean-François Marmontel.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast
Agathe, daughter of Orfise	soprano	Marie-Thérèse Laruette
Célicour, her cousin	tenor	Clairval
Cliton, the family friend of the title and Agathe's tutor	tenor	Jean-Louis Laruette [fr]
Oronte, Célicour's father	baritone^[1]	Joseph Caillot
Orfise, Oronte's sister and mother of Agathe	soprano	Eulalie Desgland(s)

Sources

Modern sources

Michel Brenet Grétry: sa vie et ses œuvres (F. Hayez, 1884)
David Charlton Grétry and the Growth of Opéra Comique (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Ronald Lessens Grétry ou Le triomphe de l'Opéra-Comique (L'Harmattan, 2007)
Alfred Loewenberg Annals of Opera 1597-1940 (Third edition, Calder, 1978)

References

^ Caillot, the first performer, was endowed with a very wide compass which enabled him to sing as a basse taille, but also to reach up to the haute-contre tones (Jean Gourret, Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris, Les publications universitaires, 1978, p. 43). According to Rodolfo Celletti "he was a baritenor and a bass at the same time": Grétry and Monsigny used to notate his parts in the bass clef, but to set them in high-baritone tessiture (Voce di tenore, Milan, Idealibri, 1989, p. 59, ISBN 88-7082-127-7).

[1] Caillot, the first performer, was endowed with a very wide compass which enabled him to sing as a basse taille, but also to reach up to the haute-contre tones (Jean Gourret, Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris, Les publications universitaires, 1978, p. 43). According to Rodolfo Celletti "he was a baritenor and a bass at the same time": Grétry and Monsigny used to notate his parts in the bass clef, but to set them in high-baritone tessiture (Voce di tenore, Milan, Idealibri, 1989, p. 59, ISBN 88-7082-127-7).

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