title: Le tableau parlant
text: # Le tableau parlant
  
  Le tableau parlant (The Talking Picture) is an opéra comique, described as a comédie-parade, in one act by André Grétry, The French libretto was by Louis Anseaume.
  
  ## Performance history
  
  It was first performed on 20 September 1769 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
  
  ## Roles
  
  Roles, voice types, premiere cast :
  
  | Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 20 September 1769 |
  | - | - | - |
  | Isabelle | soprano | Marie-Jeanne Trial |
  | Léandre | tenor | Antoine Trial |
  | Cassandre | tenor | Jean-Louis Laruette |
  | Pierrot | tenor | Jean-Baptiste Guignard |
  | Columbine | soprano | Marie-Thérèse Laruette |
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  In the absence of Isabelle's lover Léandre, Cassandre persuades Isabelle to marry him instead. Cassandre leaves and in the meantime Léandre returns and Isabelle changes her mind. She asks Cassandre's portrait for his agreement to the changed state of affairs, only to find that Cassandre himself is concealed behind the picture.
  
  