L'amant statue

L'amant statue is an opera in one act by composer Nicolas Dalayrac with a French libretto by Desfontaines-Lavallée. The opera was premiered by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 4 August 1785. It was revived on 30 September 1802 at the Salle Feydeau.[1]

Nicolas Dalayrac
Operas

Roles
Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast: 4 August 1785[2]
Célimène soprano Rose Renaud
Rosette soprano Marie Desbrosses
Dorval tenor Louis Michu
Frontin baritone Meunier[3]

Discography
  • L'amant statue with conductor Michael Cook and the Orchestre du Festival de Saint-Céré. Cast includes: Elisabeth Duval (Célimène), Jean-Pierre Chevalier (Dorval), Florence Launay (Rosette), and Francis Dudziak (Frontin). Recorded live on August 8, 1985. Released on the Ariane-Scalen label.

References

Notes

  1. Wild & Charlton 2005, pp. 50, 131. Another source states the opera was premiered on that date, 4 August 1785, at the Palace of Fontainebleau in the presence of King Louis XVI of France (L'amant statue von Dalayrac Archived 2008-12-11 at the Wayback Machine). Desfontaines' libretto had previously been performed as an opéra-comique en vaudevilles (that is, without the music of Dalayrac), first at Brunoy on 23 November 1780, and then at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris on 20 February 1781 (Wild & Charlton).
  2. 1785 libretto; full names from Kutsch & Riemens 2003.
  3. Possibly Julien Meunier (see Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."10 November 1777". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian)..

Sources

  • Karl-Josef Kutsch, Riemens, Leo (2003). Großes Sängerlexikon (fourth edition, in German). Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 9783598115981.
  • Wild, Nicole; Charlton, David (2005). Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique Paris: répertoire 1762–1972. Sprimont, Belgium: Éditions Mardaga. ISBN 9782870098981.
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