Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse

It was first performed on 12 February 1743 at the Académie Royale de Musique et de Dance in Paris. ==Roles==

• Don Quichotte, haute-contre Jean-Antoine Bérard • Sancho Pança, taille (baritenor) Louis-Antoine Cuvilliers • Altisidore, soprano Marie Fel • Peasant girl, soprano Mlle Bourbonnois • Woman, soprano • Duke, bass • Merlin, basse-taille (bass-baritone) Person • Montésinos, basse-taille Albert • Japanese man, basse-taille Person • Japanese woman, soprano Marie Fel • Enchanted lovers, sopranos Mlles Clairon and Gondré • Ballerinas, Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo and Mimi Dallemand • Male dancers, David Dumoulin, Louis Dupré and Jean-Barthélemy Lany ==Synopsis==

The opera is based upon an episode in the Cervantes novel Don Quixote, in which a Duke and Duchess amuse themselves by creating an elaborate ruse to fool the title character. ==Discography==

• Don Quichotte chez la la Duchesse (Comic Ballet in Three Acts), by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Hervé Niquet (conductor) and the ensemble Le Concert Spirituel; Naxos 8.553647 (1996). • Matthias Maute and the Ensemble Caprice; Atma Classique 5646702 (2024) ==See also==