Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel
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Title: | Dinorah or The Pilgrimage to Ploërmel |
Original title: | Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel |
Premieres poster from 1859 |
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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 |
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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:
- Woodwinds : two piccolo flutes , two flutes , two oboes , english horn , two clarinets , bass clarinet , two bassoons
- Brass : four horns , three horns à pistons, two cornets à pistons, two trumpets , two trumpets à pistons, three trombones
- Timpani , percussion : bass drum , cymbals , military drum, triangle , bells in f sharp '' '
- harp
- Strings
- Incidental music behind the scene: harmonium , bell in a flat ', wind machine , thunder machine
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
- Le pardon de Ploërmel : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Le pardon de Ploërmel. Libretto (French), Paris 1860. Digitized at Google Books
- Arias and chants from: Dinorah, or: The pilgrimage to Ploermel. Libretto (German), Bremen 1868. Digitized at Google Books
- Le Pardon de Ploërmel (Giacomo Meyerbeer) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Work data for Le Pardon de Ploërmel based on the MGG with discography at Operone
- Discography of Dinorah at Operadis
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.