Antoine-François Riccoboni (1707 – 15 May 1772)"Riccoboni, Antoine-François" Notice d'autorité personne
at the BnF website. was an Italian actor of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris, whose stage name was Lélio ''fils''.Forman 2010, p. 151.

Life

He was born Antonio Francesco Valentino Riccoboni in

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. His father was the celebrated actor Luigi Riccoboni, who became the director of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1716, and his mother was the actress Elena Balletti (1686–1771). In 1734 he married Marie-Jeanne de La Boras.

Works

In addition to several pieces of verse, a ''Satire sur le goût'', ''le Conte sans R'', and some other poems, Antoine-François Riccoboni wrote a great number of comedies of which the best, ''Les Caquets'', in three acts in prose, translated or imitated from

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, was successfully revived at the Théâtre Louvois in 1802. In 1726 he performed in Marivaux's '' La Surprise de l'amour''. He wrote more than 50 comedies in French including: * 1726: ''Les Comédiens esclaves'' * 1732: ''Les Amusements à la mode'' * 1735: ''Le Conte de Fée'' * 1760: ''Le Prétendu'' * 1760: ''Le Prétendu'' * 1761: ''Les Caquets''Pièce de théâtre avec la collaboration de Mme Riccoboni, Notice Bnf n°
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Les Caquets, œuvre musicale, rondo en Staccato pour violon par Joseph Bologne Chevalier de St-Georges, compositeur. Notice Bnf n°
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- Les Caquets Enregistrement sonore harmonisation par Marius Casadesus, violon accompagné de piano, Publication: France: Polydor, 1936, Notice Bnf n°
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* 1764: ''Les Amants de village'' He also authored a treatise ''L'art du théâtre'', published in 1750. * 1750: ''Art dit Théâtre'', Paris, in-8°.

Notes

Bibliography

* Forman, Edward (2010). ''Historical Dictionary of French Theater''. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. . * Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor (1983). ''The Oxford Companion to the Theatre'' (fourth edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. . * Senelick, Laurence (1995). "Riccoboni, family", p. 918 in ''The Cambridge Guide to the Theatre'', edited by Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .

External links

''L'Art du théâtre'', 1750
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