''Rose et Colas'' is a French

opéra-comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienn ...

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Michel-Jean Sedaine Michel-Jean Sedaine (2 June 1719 – 17 May 1797) was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for '' opéras comiques'', in which he took an important and influential role in the advancement of the genre from th ...

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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ( – ) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical ge ...

, first performed on the Théâtre-Français at the Hôtel de Bourgogne on 8 March 1764.''Rose et Colas (Sedaine / Monsigny)''
on bruzanemediabase ''Rose et Colas'' is mentioned by Honoré de Balzac in the short story '' Une double famille'' (1830). The Lord of Granville is a strong spirit, who hums an aria in Bayeux Cathedral: "Notwithstanding the sanctity of the place, he hummed, while taking holy water, an aria from the opera of ''Rose and Colas'', and guided his son along the side galleries of the nave..."

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