L'amant statue

{{Infobox opera

| name = {{lang|fr|L'amant statue}}

| composer = Nicolas Dalayrac

| image = Nicolas Dalayrac.jpg

| image_upright =

| caption = Nicolas Dalayrac

| librettist = Desfontaines-Lavallée

| language = French

| based_on =

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1785|08|04|df=y}}

| premiere_location = Comédie-Italienne, Paris

}}

{{lang|fr|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.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 ([http://www.operone.de/opern/amant.html L'amant statue von Dalayrac] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211115218/http://www.operone.de/opern/amant.html |date=2008-12-11 }}). 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).

Roles

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!Role

!Voice typeAccording to the printed-score clefs, as reported by Joann Elart, Catalogue des fonds musicaux conservés en Haute-Normandie. Tome I – Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen. Volume 1 – Fonds di Théâtre des Arts (XVIIIe et XIXe siècles), Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 2004, p. 12

!Premiere cast: 4 August 1785[https://books.google.com/books?id=6sg7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2 1785 libretto]; full names from Kutsch & Riemens 2003, unless otherwise stated.

Célimène

|soprano

|Rose Renaud

Rosette

|soprano

|Marie Desbrosses

Dorval

|taille (baritenor)

|Louis Michu

Frontin

|basse-taille (bass-baritone)

|Philippe-Thomas Meunier (also spelled Ménier)First name from David Charlton and Mark Ledbury (eds), Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797): Theatre, Opera and Art, Routledge, 2018, Index, ad nomen (and pp. 130 and 265).

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

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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}}.