Bastien und Bastienne

Singspiel in one act

• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 50 / 46b
• Librettist: Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern (translation of French source); additional verses probably by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and recitatives by Johann Andreas Schachtner
• Source: Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne, parody by Harny de Guerville and Charles-Simon Favart of Le Devin du Village, intermezzo by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• First performance: Home of Dr. Anton Mesmer, Landstrasse, October? 1768
• Performance History
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Dramatis Personæ

Bastienne, a shepherdess (soprano)

Bastien, a shepherd (tenor)

Colas, village soothsayer and shepherd (bass)

Setting:a village; time unspecified