Bérénice (Racine)
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| Title: | Berenice |
| Original title: | Bérénice |
| Genus: | tragedy |
| Original language: | French |
| Author: | Jean Racine |
| Premiere: | November 21, 1670 |
| Place of premiere: | Hotel de Bourgogne , Paris |
| Place and time of the action: | Rome, a day in AD 79 (Titus has just become emperor) |
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Bérénice is a tragedy in five acts by Jean Racine . The premiere with Marie Champmeslé in the title role was on November 21, 1670 in the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris . The piece consists of 1506 Alexandrians . The author dedicated it to the Treasury Secretary Colbert .
A marriage of his emperor Titus with Berenize, a Syrian Hasmonean , with Palestinian Tetrarch is related, would like the Roman Empire did not tolerate. Titus complies. Suetonius writes in his biography of Titus: "Titus immediately released Queen Berenice, to whom he is said to have even promised marriage, from Rome against his and her wishes." Actually, this succinct sentence is supposed to have been the essential material from which the author made this Piece has built. During the centuries of performance history, Racine was repeatedly accused of the resulting lack of action in the stage work.
content
The action runs for a full day, just a week after Titus took office.
- 1
Five years ago, after the end of the Jewish War , Antiochus followed his friend Titus to Rome with Berenize. Now, after the death of his father Vespasian , the companion in arms became the Roman emperor. The mistress Berenize preferred his rival Titus to him. Antiochus has come to terms with it. Titus has not yet declared himself, but Berenize - the "stranger in Rome" - thinks that Titus will defy the unruly Senate and marry her - even as a non-Roman queen.
- 2
Berenize is still hoping. Titus, torn this way and that, loves Berenize ardently, but as the new emperor he cannot go against the state of affairs. So his decision is made. He renounces. Faithful Antiochus is to accompany Berenize to the far east.
- 3
Titus will always love Berenize. In spite of all this, he has to sell his plan to Antiochus, for which the approval of the Senate seems certain to him. The Roman province of Cilicia is subdivided into Commagene. Thus King Antiochus and Queen Berenize become neighbors on both sides of the Euphrates . Berenize does not believe Antiochus when he brings the order of the emperor - separation forever. The next day, Berenize and Antiochus should leave together. The queen sends the king away and never wants to see him again.
- 4th
Anger rages in Berenize. She wants to speak to the lover. Titus knows that in the upcoming encounter he must not only be steadfast but also cruel. When Berenize leaves after the hour of separation has struck, Titus fears for the life of his beloved and wants to save her.
- 5
So he calls Antiochus. Before Berenize, Titus once again conjures up the five past years of burning love. Too late - Berenize wants to travel alone that same day; no longer wants to see both Titus and Antiochus.
In the presence of Berenizen, Antiochus confesses to the astonished emperor that he had been his rival for five years and is now looking for death after his lover's sharp rebuff. Berenize then made it clear that she never wanted to become Empress and that all three were condemned to life as “role models for all of the world”. Titus in particular must rule. Antiochus complies with a resigned Hélas!
Stage performances
Over the centuries, the Comédie-Française kept the play alive: Charles Chevillet (1680), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1717), Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, Abraham-Alexis Quinault (1724), Mademoiselle Gaussin, Jean-Baptiste de La Noue, Jean-Jacques-François Drouin (1752), Lekain , Bellecour (1767), François-René Molé, Saint-Prix (1782), Saint-Fal (1783), Louise Desgarcins, François-Joseph Talma (1788) , Mademoiselle Georges (1807), Rachel , Pierre François Beauvallet (1844), Julia Bartet, Paul Mounet, Albert Lambert (1893), René Alexandre (1919), Eugénie Segond-Weber , Maxime Desjardins, Jean Hervé (1922), Gabrielle Colonna -Romano, Maurice Escande (1923), Jean Yonnel (1926), Maurice Donneaud (1931), Marie Ventura (1932), Germaine Rouer (1934), Maurice Escande (1937), Jean Chevrier (1942), Jeanne Sully (1945) , Gaston Baty, Annie Ducaux (1946), Paul-Émile Deiber (1949), Jean Deschamps (1956), Renée Faure , Denise Noël, André Falcon , Simon Eine, Jacques Destoop (1 962), Geneviève Casile, Nicolas Silberg (1979) and Klaus Michael Grüber , Ludmila Mikaël , Richard Fontana, Marcel Bozonnet (1984).
Recent stage events
- 2001 Avignon Festival : production by Lambert Wilson (as Antiochus) with Kristin Scott Thomas , Didier Sandre and the Ensemble des Théâtre national de Chaillot .
- 2006 Théâtre des Amandiers , directed by Jean-Louis Martinelli , with Marie-Sophie Ferdane as Berenize, Patrick Catalifo as Titus and Hammou Graïa as Antiochu
- 2008 Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, directed by Lambert Wilson and as Titus, with Carole Bouquet as Berenize and Fabrice Michel as Antiochus. Lambert Wilson's father, Georges Wilson, played Paulin until his death.
- 2011 Royal Opera (Versailles) , Comedie-Française and elsewhere, directed by Muriel Mayette
- 2018 Opéra Garnier , Paris, opera by Michael Jarrell with the composer's libretto based on the drama by Racine, staging by Claus Guth , conductor: Philippe Jordan , with Barbara Hannigan and Bo Skovhus
Media adaptations
- 1902 Sarah Bernhardt's Berenize voice
- 1975: TV film by Raymond Rouleau with Danièle Lebrun in the title role, Laurent Terzieff as Titus and Robert Rimbaud as Antiochus.
- 2010: Bérénice . Mise en scène Jean-Louis Martinelli , réalisation Hélène Ricome, DVD SOPAT (DVD version of the production at the Théâtre Nanterre Amandiers 2006)
- 2011: Bérénice, excerpt from a performance by Le menteur volontaire - Compagnie théâtrale YouTube video, 5:11 min.
expenditure
- Bérénice . Théâtre, texte intégral, texte de l'éd. de 1697. Paris: Hachette. (Classiques Hachette.) ISBN 2-01167817-X
- Berenize , in Rudolf Alexander Schröder [translator]: Collected works. Sixth volume. Corneille / Racine / Molière. In German Alexandrians. Suhrkamp, Berlin 1958, pp. 163-226. [ Output used ]
- Berenike. Britannicus . Translated from the French by Simon Werle . Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 3-88661-252-X
- Simon Werle received the Celan Prize for his Racine translations, "because his transfer of Racine theater plays, which since Lessing had been considered almost untranslatable and unperformable in German-speaking countries, set high standards in an appropriate German tragedy language".
Web links
In French
- The text (PDF; 817 kB) at http://theatre-classique.fr/
- Video with excerpts from performances and interviews
annotation
- ↑ A week later, Corneilles “Titus and Berenize” (French: Tite et Bérénice ) was premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (French: Théâtre du Palais-Royal ).
Individual evidence
- ^ French Marie Champmeslé
- ↑ Edition used, p. 176, 3rd Zvu and p. 759, 2nd Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 762, middle
- ↑ Edition used, p. 762, below
- ↑ Edition used, p. 206, 13. Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 185, 16. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 226, 9. Zvo
- ^ French Bérénice (Racine) (section "Grandes représentations jusqu'au XXe siècle à la Comédie-Française")
- ^ French Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault
- ↑ eng. Quinault-Dufresne
- ↑ French Mademoiselle Gaussin
- ^ French Jean-Baptiste de La Noue
- ^ French Jean-Jacques-François Drouin
- ^ French Bellecour
- ^ French François-René Molé
- ^ French Saint-Prix
- ^ French Saint-Fal
- ↑ French Louise Desgarcins
- ↑ French Mademoiselle George
- ^ French Pierre François Beauvallet
- ↑ French Julia Bartet
- ^ French Paul Mounet
- ^ French Albert Lambert
- ^ French René Alexandre
- ^ French Maxime Desjardins
- ^ French Jean Hervé
- ^ French Gabrielle Colonna-Romano
- ↑ French. Maurice Escande
- ↑ French. Jean Yonnel
- ↑ French. Maurice Donneaud
- ↑ French Marie Ventura
- ^ French Germaine Rouer
- ↑ French. Maurice Escande
- ^ French Jean Chevrier
- ↑ French Jeanne Sully
- ↑ French Gaston Baty
- ^ French Annie Ducaux
- ^ French Paul-Émile Deiber
- ^ French Jean Deschamps
- ↑ French Denise Noël
- ↑ French Simon Eine
- ↑ French Jacques Destoop
- ^ French Geneviève Casile
- ^ French Nicolas Silberg
- ^ French Richard Fontana
- ↑ French Marcel Bozonnet
- ↑ French Bérénice (Racine) (section Quelques principales représentations au XXIe siècle)
- ↑ Michel Courot: Une autre et belle lecture de "Bérénice" Le Monde, September 27, 2008, accessed on September 15, 2019
- ↑ Muriel Mayette: Bérénice à la Comédie française , canalacademie.com, accessed on September 15, 2019
- ↑ Joachim Lange: The new opera “Bérénice” by Michael Jarrell , NMZ online, accessed on September 15, 2019, is thrilling at the Palais Garnier in Paris
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ quoted from the jury's statement, Jean Racine, Verlag der Autor , accessed on September 15, 2019
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