Английская Википедия:Gustave III (Auber)
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox opera Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué (Gustavus III, or The Masked Ball) is an opéra historique or grand opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
Performance history
It received its first performance at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 27 February 1833, with costumes designed by Eugène Lami and Paul Lormier, and sets by Léon Feuchère (act 1 and act 5, scene 2), Jules Diéterle (act 2), Alfred (act 3), Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (act 4), René-Humanité Philastre and Charles-Antoine Cambon (act 5, scene 1).Шаблон:Check The opera was a major success for the composer, with 168 performances until 1853.
Ellen Creathorne Clayton has translated French critic Jules Janin's description of the last act, which was often presented separately from the opera, as follows:
"I believe ... that never, even at the Opéra, was seen a spectacle more grand, more rich, more curious, more magnificent, that the fifth act of Gustave. It is a fairlyland of beautiful women, of gauze, of velvet, of grotesqueness, of elegance, of good taste and of bad taste, of details, of learned researches, of esprit, of madness and of whimsicality – of every thing in a word, which is suggestive of the eighteenth century. When the beautiful curtain is raised, you find yourself in an immense ballroom." The stage of the Grand Opéra, the largest in Paris, is admirably adapted for masked balls, and the side-scenes being removed, the stage was surrounded a salon, the decorations of which corresponded with those of the boxes. "This salle de bal is overlooked by boxes, these boxes are filled with masks, who play the part of spectators. At their feet, constantly moving, is the circling crowd, disguised in every imaginable costume, and dominoes of every conceivable hue. Harlequins of all fashions, clowns, peddlers, what shall I say? One presents the appearance of a tub, another of a guitar; his neighbor is disguised en botte d'asperges; that one is a mirror, this a fish; there is a bird, here is a time-piece – you can hardly imagine the infinite confusion. Peasants, marquises, princes, monks, I know not what, mingle in one rainbow-hued crowd. It is impossible to describe this endless madness, this whirl, this bizarrerie, on which the rays of two thousand wax tapers, in their crustal lustres, pour an inundation of mellow light. I, who am so well accustomed to spectacles like this – I, who am, unfortunately, not easily disposed to be surprised – I am yet dazzled with this radiant scene."Шаблон:Sfn
Roles
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast,[1] 27 February 1833 (Conductor: – ) |
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Gustave III, King of Sweden | tenor | Adolphe Nourrit |
Ankastrom,[2] his friend | bass | Nicolas-Prosper Levasseur |
Amélie, Countess of Ankastrom, in love with Gustave | soprano | Cornélie Falcon |
Oscar, the King's page | soprano | Julie Dorus-Gras |
Arvedson, fortune teller | mezzo-soprano | Louise-Zulmé Dabadie-Leroux |
Dehorn, conspirator | bass | Henri-Bernard Dabadie |
Warting, conspirator | tenor | Alexis Dupont |
A chamberlain | tenor | Hyacinthe Trévaux |
Armfelt, Minister of Justice[3] | bass | Ferdinand Prévost |
Général Kaulbart, Minister of War[3] | bass | Pierre-François Wartel |
Christian | tenor | Jean-Étienne-Auguste Massol |
A servant of Ankastrom | singer | François-Alphonse Hens[4] |
Roslin, painter | silent | Ferdinand[5] |
Sergell, sculptor[6] | silent | Henri[7] |
Chorus: courtiers, deputies of state, military officers in the service of the King, royal guards, sailors, soldiers, people |
Synopsis
- Place: Stockholm
- Time: 15 and 16 March 1792
The opera concerns some aspects of the real-life assassination of Gustav III, King of Sweden.
The major aspects of the plot can be found first in Giuseppe Verdi's planned opera, Gustavo III, which was never performed as written, but whose major elements were incorporated into a revised version of the story in the opera which eventually became Un ballo in maschera.
Recordings
- Gustave III: Laurence Dale, Шаблон:Ill, Christian Treguier, French Lyrique Orchestra; Intermezzo Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Michel Swierczewski (Arion, 1993)
- The overture and ballet music from Gustave III appears at the end of the second disc of Richard Bonynge's recording of Auber's Le domino noir.
References
Notes Шаблон:Reflist Sources
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Further reading
- Budden, Julian, The Operas of Verdi, Volume 2: From Il Trovatore to La Forza del destino. London: Cassell, 1984. Шаблон:ISBN (hardcover) Шаблон:ISBN (paperback).
- Schneider, Herbert (1992). "Gustave III", vol. 2, pp. 583–584, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. Шаблон:ISBN.
External links
- Шаблон:IMSLP
- Visual documentation of the premiere on Gallica
Шаблон:Daniel Auber Шаблон:Gustav III of Sweden Шаблон:Portal bar Шаблон:Authority control
- ↑ The cast is listed in the Paris libretto (Шаблон:Harvnb) and Шаблон:Harvnb, except for the silent roles of Roslin and Sergell, which are listed in the Amsterdam libretto (Шаблон:Harvnb). The cast is also listed, with some minor differences, in Шаблон:Harvnb.
- ↑ The role name Ankastrom is often spelled Ankarstrom or Anckarstrom in the secondary literature, presumably influenced by the Swedish spelling of the name of the real-life assassin Jacob Johan Anckarström. However, the role name is spelled Ankastrom in the librettos published in Paris (Шаблон:Harvnb) and Amsterdam (Шаблон:Harvnb), as well as the one in Шаблон:Harvnb.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 The role names of the Ministers of Justice and War are given in the libretto text, e.g., Шаблон:Harvnb.
- ↑ In a footnote Tamvaco 2000, p. 716, states: "Le ténor François Alphonse Hens était né à Paris le 26 mai 1806." In the index, p. 1261, he is listed as "2e basse".
- ↑ Possibly the dancer with the stage name Ferdinand, real name Jean La Brunière de Médicis (listed in the index of Tamvaco 2000, p. 1251).
- ↑ Identified as Jean Tobie Sergell by Шаблон:Harvnb
- ↑ Possibly the dancer-choreographer Henry (real name Louis-Henri Bannachon) or the bass-baritone (François-Louis) Henry (both listed in the index of Tamvaco 2000, p. 1261).
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