Le lac des fées
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Le lac des fées (The Fairy Lake) is a grand opera in five acts composed by Daniel Auber to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville (the pen name of Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier). The story is set in the Harz Mountains and based on a German ballad. The opera was premiered by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 1 April 1839.
Roles
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!Voice type[http://imslp.org/wiki/Le_lac_des_fées_(Auber,_Daniel_François_Esprit) Vocal score at IMSLP]. !Premiere Cast,[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k85994g/f7.image.r=.langEN 1839 libretto]; Tamvaco 2000, pp. 869–870. 1 April 1839 |
| Zéila, young fairy
| Maria Delorès Nau |
| Albert, student |
| Marguerite, innkeeper
|soprano |
| Rodolphe de Cronembourg, seigneur châtelain
|bass |
| Issachar, Jewish merchant
|tenor |
| Fritz, student, companion of Albert
|bass |
| Conrad, student, companion of Albert
|tenor |
| Pickler, crook
|bass | Molinier |
| Edda, young fairy
|soprano |Élian Barthélemy |
| A young shepherd
|soprano |Élian Barthélemy |
References
Notes
Sources
- Charlton, David, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iqoVHY6OrjIC&dq=%22lac+des+f%C3%A9es%22+M%C3%A9lesville&pg=PA184 The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera], Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp 184–186. {{ISBN|0-521-64683-9}}
- Chorley, Henry Fothergill, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KxbpveKlKO0C&dq=%22lac+des+f%C3%A9es%22+duprez+nau&pg=PA247 Modern German Music: Recollections and Criticisms], Smith, Elder, 1854, pp. 246–247.
- Clément, Félix and Larousse, Pierre, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RO1OlrcJcqwC&dq=%22lac+des+f%C3%A9es%22+M%C3%A9lesville&pg=PA392 "Lac des fées (Le)]", Dictionnaire lyrique ou Histoire des opéras, Slatkine, 1999, p. 392 (in French). {{ISBN|2-05-101696-8}}
- Tamvaco, Jean-Louis (2000). Les Cancans de l'Opéra. Chroniques de l'Académie Royale de Musique et du théâtre, à Paris sous les deux restorations (2 volumes, in French). Paris: CNRS Editions. {{ISBN|978-2-271-05685-6}}.
External links
- {{IMSLP2 |work=Le lac des fées (Auber, Daniel François Esprit) |cname=Vocal score}}
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k85994g/f1.image.r=.langEN 1839 libretto] at Gallica
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=HK89AAAAYAAJ&q=%22lac+des%22 Complete libretto in the original French] from Œuvres complètes de M. Eugène Scribe (Volume 2), Furne, 1841, pp. 123–146.
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Category:French-language operas