Gervaise Macquart

{{Infobox opera

| name = Gervaise Macquart

| composer = Giselher Klebe

| image = Giselher Klebe 2008.jpg

| image_upright = 0.7

| caption = The composer in 2008

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| librettist = Lore Klebe

| language = German

| based_on = {{based on|L'Assommoir|Émile Zola}}

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1995|11|10|df=y}}

| premiere_location = Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf

}}

Gervaise Macquart, Op. 119, is an opera in two acts by Giselher Klebe. His wife, Lore Klebe, wrote the libretto based on the novel L'Assommoir (in German: {{ill|Der Totschläger|de}}) by Émile Zola.

The opera premiered on 10 November 1995 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany, under the direction of August Everding, conducted by János Kulka,[https://www.giselherklebe.de/leben-werk/werkverzeichnis/ "Biografie & Werkverzeichnis – 1995"], giselherklebe.de with Marta Marquez in the title role, Martha Mödl as Bazouga, Markus Müller as Lantier,[http://www.euro-opera.de/W_NN_K.html "Composers – Works: Gieselher Klebe (*1925)"] at euro-opera.de {{in lang|de}}[http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/_archive/12096/reports.12096.html "From around the world: Düsseldorf"] by Anne Midgette, Opera News, January 20, 1996, Metropolitan Opera {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609235706/http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/_archive/12096/reports.12096.html |date=June 9, 2009 }} and Gwendolyn Killebrew as Madame Goujet.{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Kutsch|first1=K. J.|author1-link=Karl-Josef Kutsch|last2=Riemens|first2=Leo|author2-link=Leo Riemens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C&pg=2378|title=Killebrew, Gwendolyn|encyclopedia=Großes Sängerlexikon|publisher=De Gruyter|edition=4th|language=de|date=2012|pages=2378–2279|isbn=978-3-59-844088-5}}

References

  • Eleonore Büning: [https://archive.today/20130212172432/http://images.zeit.de/text/1995/47/Gefaerbtes_Wasser "Gefärbtes Wasser"], Die Zeit (47/1995) {{in lang|de}}

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Category:German-language operas

Category:Operas by Giselher Klebe

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Category:1995 operas

Category:Operas based on novels

Category:Operas set in France

Category:Operas set in the 19th century

Category:Les Rougon-Macquart

Category:Operas based on works by Émile Zola

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