Key facts
- Written by
- Molière
- Place premiered
- Théâtre du Palais-Royal , Paris
- Original language
- French
- Genre
- comédie-ballet
via Wikipedia infobox
Full text
Der Eingebildete Kranke – Molière
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Wikidata facts
- Author
- Molière
- Genre
- comédie-ballet
- Main subject
- hypochondriasis
- Composer
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Image
- Le Malade imaginaire frontispice.jpg
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- form of creative work
- play
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/moliere/kranke/kranke.html
- Commons category
- Le Malade imaginaire
- choreographer
- Pierre Beauchamp
- publication date
- 1673-01-01
- date of first performance
- 1673-00-00
- inception
- 1673-02-10
- language of work or name
- Latin
- location of first performance
- Salle du Palais-Royal
- title
- Le Malade imaginaire
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
The Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [lə malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes (H.495, H.495 a, H.495 b) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. It premiered on 10 February 1673 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris and was originally choreographed by Pierre Beauchamp.
Molière had fallen out with the powerful court composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, with whom he had pioneered the comédie-ballet form a decade earlier, and had opted for the collaboration with Charpentier. Le malade imaginaire was Molière's last work. He collapsed during his fourth performance as Argan on 17 February and died soon after.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Imaginary Invalid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.