Djamileh
| Work data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Djamileh |
| Original title: | Djamileh |
| Shape: | Opéra-comique in one act |
| Original language: | French |
| Music: | Georges Bizet |
| Libretto : | Louis Gallet |
| Literary source: | Namouna by Alfred de Musset |
| Premiere: | May 22, 1872 |
| Place of premiere: | Paris |
| Playing time: | approx. 65 minutes |
| Place and time of the action: | Cairo around 1800 |
| people | |
Djamileh is a comic opera ( Opéra-comique ) in one act by Georges Bizet . The libretto was written by Louis Gallet . He used the narration Namouna by Alfred de Musset as a model . The work was premiered on May 22, 1872 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
orchestra
Two flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a timpani, percussion, a harp and 30 strings; plus a piano, an oboe and a Basque drum as stage music
action
The opera takes place in the palace of Harun.
Young Harun is so rich that he can afford almost anything. This has meant that he can no longer really enjoy life. He used to show noble feelings more often, but these seem to have gone deaf now. He's also been rather harsh lately with the women of his harem. They are no longer enough for him to be able to satisfy his erotic inclinations. Again and again he is eager to thread a new fleeting encounter with an attractive girl. Even today he has ordered a new beauty to his palace.
The heart of the slave Djamileh has been kindled in love for her master for a long time. She knows that he is expecting a new lover and uses the darkness of the night to impersonate her. However, your plan does not work. Harun recognizes her as his slave. He puts them to the test by harshly rejecting them. But he can tell from her behavior that she genuinely loves him. Then lovely feelings awaken in him again, which he has not had for a long time, and he declares Djamileh the favorite of the women in his harem.
Sound carrier
- CD with Lucia Popp, Franco Bonisolli, Jean-Philippe Lafont and the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lamberto Gardelli - Orfeo 1983, DDD, No. C 174 881 A
- CD with Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean-Luc Maurette, Francois Le Roux and the National Orchestra d'Ile de France under the direction of Jacques Mercier - RCA 1988, No. 74321 678 302
literature
- Leo Melitz: Guide through the operas . Globus-Verlag, Berlin 1914, pp. 61–62.
- Horst Seeger : Opera Lexicon . Heinrichshofen Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1979, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1 , p. 155.