Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel

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Work data
Title: Dinorah or The Pilgrimage to Ploërmel
Original title: Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel
Premieres poster from 1859

Premieres poster from 1859

Shape: Opéra-comique in three acts
Original language: French
Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Libretto : Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Literary source: Michel Carré:
Les chercheurs de trésor
Premiere: April 4, 1859
Place of premiere: Opéra-Comique , Paris
Place and time of the action: Brittany, 19th century
people
  • Hoël, Shepherd ( baritone )
  • Corentin, musician ( tenor )
  • Loïc (speaking role)
  • Claude (speaking role)
  • A hunter ( bass )
  • A reaper (tenor)
  • Dinorah, shepherdess ( soprano )
  • two little shepherds (2 sopranos)
  • two little goatherds (2 sopranos)
  • Farmers, peasant women, goatherds, lumberjacks with their wives, bagpipers, four girls, children scattering flowers ( choir , extras)

Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel (German: Dinorah or Die Pilfahrt nach Ploërmel ) is an opera-comique in three acts by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer . The libretto was created by Jules Barbier with the collaboration of Michel Carré on the basis of his story Les chercheurs de trésor . The work also bore this title during its creation and was only renamed by the composer when it was first performed .

action

introduction

Dinorah's family's home was destroyed in a storm; just the day she was going to marry Hoël. At the same time, her bridegroom disappears into the mountains, since he has heard of a treasure that can be found there. As a result of these events, Dinorah goes mad and from then on roams with her goats through the solitude of the mountains.

first act

Area around Corentin's hut

( Overture , orchestra together with choir). On her haphazard hikes through the lonely gorges, Dinorah is only accompanied by her goats. She meets Corentin the bagpiper, who lives there in solitude ( duet with Corentin "Blase, blow cheerfully away"). Now Hoël arrives at Corentin's hut. The two betrothed do not recognize each other, and Hoël wins Corentin for the treasure hunt ( aria "Mächt'ge Kluft der Magie").

Second act

Forest in the moonlight

Dinorah's shadow dance.

Metamorphosis - rock canyon with a water weir

A thunderstorm breaks out. As Hoël is exploring the way through the gorge to the treasure, Corentin learns by chance from Dinorah that there is a curse on the treasure: the one who touches this treasure first must die! Since he believes her, he refuses to follow Hoël through the gorge in the storm and suggests taking the insane Dinorah with him instead. Suddenly the weir breaks and the gorge is flooded in no time. Dinorah tries to save one of her goats and falls into the floods herself. Hoël recognizes his bride by her collar and saves her from the floods.

Third act

Idyllic landscape

Hoël saves himself to the shore with Dinorah (romance "You avenge my repentance"). When Dinorah wakes up, her madness is gone and she immediately recognizes her fiancé Hoël. At that moment the singing of pilgrims can be heard in the distance, and Hoël realizes his injustice. He renounces his treasure hunt and asks Dinorah again to become his wife. Corentin plays a happy song on his bagpipes to the cheers of the maids and servants who have arrived, and the curtain falls.

Instrumentation

The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:

Work history

The first version, entitled Le pardon de Ploërmel , had its first performance on April 4, 1859 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris . This work, entitled Dinorah , premiered on July 26th of the same year at the Royal Opera House in London . Nowadays this piece is mostly performed under the title Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel .

Johann Christoph Grünbaum translated this work, and at the end of 1859 this opera could already be performed in German at the ducal court theater in Coburg .

literature

  • Leo Melitz: Guide through the operas . Globus-Verlag, Berlin 1914, pp. 60-61.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: Dinorah or the pilgrimage to Ploërmel . Bote & Bock, Berlin 1860.
  • Horst Seeger : Opera Lexicon . Heinrichshofens Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1987, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1 . P. 424.
  • Reiner Zimmermann: Giacomo. A biography according to documents . Parthas Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932529-23-5 .

Web links

Commons : Dinorah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sieghart Döhring : Le Pardon de Ploërmel. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , pp. 155-158.