Lucile (opera)
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Lucile is an opéra comique, described as a comédie melee d'ariettes, in one act by the Belgian composer André Grétry, The French text was by Jean François Marmontel, and the characters in the opera, though not the actual story, were derived from Marmontel's L'école des pères.
[edit] Performance history
It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris on 5 January 1769.
[edit] Sources
Lucile by David Charlton, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7