Les mousquetaires au couvent

Les Mousquetaires au couvent (The Musketeers at the Convent) is an opérette in three acts by Louis Varney, with a libretto by Jules Prével and Paul Ferrier, after a vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont from 1835 entitled L'habit ne fait pas le moine. It was Varney's most successful work, and the only one to have maintained a place in the French repertoire.

It was first performed in Paris, at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, on 16 March 1880, where it was revived in a revised version on 2 September 1880 and then in 1883, 1896 and 1906. It was also produced in Paris at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques from 1886 to 1909, as well as at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs in 1896 and 1897 and the Théâtre de la Gaîté in 1899, 1901 and 1913.

Since 1945, the operetta has had a few major productions in France, notably at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique in 1952 and 1957. There were also presentations in 1968 at the Porte Saint Martin Festival in Paris, and at the Opéra-Comique in 1992, with Gabriel Bacquier. A production was mounted in Nice in 2001, and in June 2015 the Opéra-Comique presented a new production by Jérôme Deschamps, conducted by Laurent Campellone.

The action takes place in Touraine, under the reign of King Louis XIII of France.

At the tavern 'Au Mousquetaire Gris'
In the courtyard of 'The Grey Musketeer', musketeers and others are drinking. Simone intervenes when rivalry between soldiers and local men gets too heated, preventing a fight and separating them with a song. The musketeers have been billeted in the town by order of the Governor of Touraine, Comte de Pontcourlay, to watch out for conspiracies against the throne.

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