Les deux petits savoyards (The Two Little Savoyards) is a comic opera in one act by the French composer Nicolas Dalayrac. It was first performed by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 14 January 1789. The libretto is by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières. The opera was a great success; according to the records of the Comédie-Italienne, 104,000 spectators had seen it by 1793.[1] The theme of reconciliation between the social classes appealed to audiences at the beginning of the French Revolution. Les deux petits savoyards received its British premiere at Sadler's Wells in June 1789 and it first appeared in the United States in Philadelphia in 1797.
- ^ Emmet Kennedy; Marie-Laurence Netter; James P. MGregor; Mark V. Olsen (1996). Emmet Kennedy (ed.). Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris. Greenwood. p. 23. ISBN 9780313289606.