Devin du village, Le
Devin du village, Le (The Village Soothsayer). Opera (intermède) in 1 act by Rousseau to his own lib. Prod. Fontainebleau 1752, Paris 1753, London 1766, NY 1790. Lib. of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne is based on a parody.
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