Silvain Pouvreau
Silvain may refer to: *Silvain (opera), ''Silvain'' (opera), an opera by André Ernest Modeste Grétry *Silvain of Ahun, French martyr and saint *15899 Silvain, an asteroid People with the surname *Eugène Silvain (1851–1930), French actor *Pierre Silvain (1926–2009), French writer and playwright Ships *, a Dutch fishing trawler in service 1904–16 See also

*Saint-Silvain-Montaigut *Saint-Silvain-Bellegarde *Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx *Saint-Silvain-Bas-le-Roc *Sylvain (other) {{Disambiguation, surname French-language surnames ...
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Silvain (opera)
''Silvain'' (spelt ''Sylvain'' in the 1771 libretto) is a one-act '' opéra-comique'' by André Grétry with a libretto by Jean-François Marmontel. It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne (the Opéra Comique) on 19 February 1770 and was one of Grétry's biggest early successes. The plot concerns Silvain, who works as a poor farmer after being disinherited by his rich father for marrying a lower-class woman. The pastoral theme and its celebration of rural life was common in ''opéra-comique'' of the time but Marmontel's libretto goes much further in advocating social equality and defending the rights of peasants against the encroachment of landowners. Background Marmontel's chief source was ''Erast'', a one-act play by the Swiss writer Salomon Gessner, who enjoyed a considerable European vogue at the time. Erast is an impoverished mountain farmer whose servant Simon decides to "rob the rich to pay the poor" and feed his master's and other destitute families. Erast orders ...
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