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Sancho Pança (opera)

1762 opera

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ85799498 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sancho Pança dans son isle is a 1762 French-language opera in one act by François-André Danican Philidor to a libretto by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. It premiered at the Comédie-Italienne on 8 July 1762.

Editorial summary

“Sancho Pança (opera)” enters the record as 1762 opera. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sancho, Pança and opera can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1762—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sancho, Pança and opera.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sancho Pança (opera)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sancho, Pança and opera provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85799498. The first chronological checks are 1762.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sancho Pança (opera)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.