El hijo fingido

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Work data
Title: El hijo fingido
Shape: Comedia lírica in a prologue and two acts
Original language: Spanish
Music: Joaquín Rodrigo
Libretto : Jesús Maria de Arozamena and Victoria Kamhi
Literary source: Lope de Vega : ¿De cuándo acá nos vino? and Los ramilletes de Madrid
Premiere: 5th December 1964
Place of premiere: Teatro de la Zarzuela , Madrid
Playing time: about 80 minutes
people
  • Doña Bárbara, young widow ( mezzo-soprano )
  • Ángela, her daughter, 17 years old ( lyric soprano )
  • Basilisa, mistress (actress)
  • Rosita, the Inca ( old )
  • Mother Noé (actress)
  • Dominga, flower seller (soprano)
  • Lucía, maid (actress)
  • a lady (actress)
  • a young woman (actress)
  • Leonardo, young lieutenant in the service of Fajardo ( baritone )
  • Fajardo, Spanish captain in Flanders ( bass )
  • Beltrán, Leonardo's servant (comical tenor )
  • Don Octavio, admirer of Angelas (strange tenor)
  • Don Ventura (weird bass)
  • Riaño , Pacheco and Celedón, soldiers in Flanders (actors)
  • a usurer (actor)
  • a cloth dealer (actor)
  • three captains (actors)
  • Choir
  • ballet

El hijo fingido (English: "the wrong son") is a Zarzuela (original name: "comedia lírica") in a prologue and two acts by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo based on a Spanish libretto by Jesús Maria de Arozamena and Victoria Kamhi based on a comedy by Lope de Vega . It premiered on December 5, 1964 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.

layout

The music evokes the atmosphere of the Spanish Renaissance, the so-called "Golden Age". At least one number is based on a guitar piece by the composer Gaspar Sanz . The music is light and catchy. It contains allusions to other zarzuelas such as Amadeo Vives ' Doña Francisquita and La villana or Gerónimo Giménez ' La tempranica. Nevertheless, Rodrigo's style is unmistakable.

structure

The music numbers have the following names:

prolog

  • No. 1. Obertura
  • No. 2. Canario
  • No. 3. Coplillas del alférez y coro: "Salen de Sanlúcar"
  • No. 4. Dúo de Rosita y Leonardo: "Esta es, Rosita"
  • No. 5. Dúo de Rosita y Leonardo, con coro interno: "Taquitán, mitanacuni"
  • No. 6. Rosita y, dentro, Leonardo: "A la torre del Oro"

first act

  • No. 7a. Introducción
  • No. 7b. Coro en las gradas, baile y escena: "Vida bona, vida bona"
  • No. 8. Terceto de Beltrán, Octavio y Leonardo: "¡Ah, gradas de San Felipe!"
  • No. 9. Terceto y canción de Bárbara: "Alférez ... Señora"
  • No. 10a. Escena: "¿Qué tienes Angela bella?"
  • No. 10b. Terceto de Angela, Leonardo y Dominga: "Aldeana cortesana"
  • No. 11. Rigodón del ay, ay, ay .: "A bailar el au, ay, ay"
  • No. 12. Cavaletta de Leonardo: "Mis arreos son las armas"

Second act

  • No. 13. Preludio
  • No. 14. Dúo de Angela y Leonardo: "¡Mis celos echas a risa!"
  • No. 15. Dúo de Angela y Bárbara: "¿Por qué no dejas?"
  • No. 16. Romanza de Angela: "Mal empleados sentimientos míos"
  • No. 17. Cuarteto cómico con Beltrán, Octavio, Leonardo y Ventura: "Soy Don Octavio Mendoza"
  • No. 18. Ballet
  • No. 19. Intermedio
  • No. 20. Coro interno: "¿Dónde vas buen caballero?"
  • No. 21. Romanza de Leonardo: "¿Dónde meounterrarás, alba?"
  • No. 22. Canción de Angela: "Yo pagaré la posada"
  • No. 23. Romanza de Angela: "Madre, un caballero"
  • No. 24. Concertante: "Yo os ruego"

Instrumentation

The orchestral line-up of the Zarzuela includes the following instruments:

Work history

Although Joaquín Rodrigo composed a number of stage works, El hijo fingido is his only contribution to the genre of Zarzuela . It is based on the comedies ¿De cuándo acá nos vino? and Los ramilletes de Madrid by the Spanish poet Lope de Vega . The librettists Jesús Maria de Arozamena and Victoria Kamhi left the place and time of the plot unchanged. Rodrigo wrote the composition between 1955 and 1960. It was premiered on December 5, 1964 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela .

The Viking Opera Guide , edited by Amanda Holden, rates El hijo fingido as follows: “Although the work is not important in the composer's output, the lyrical beauty of the main protagonist's three main arias is outstanding.” (“Although the work is not important for the composer's work Has meaning, the lyrical beauty of the three main arias of the main protagonist is outstanding. ")

Recordings

  • 2000 - Miguel Roa (conductor), orchestra and choir of the Comunidad de Madrid.
    Miquel Ramón (Leonardo), María Rodríguez (Ángela), Lola Casariego (Doña Bárbara), María José Suarez (Rosita la Inca), María Rey-Joly (Dominga), Emilio Sánchez (Beltrán), Enrique del Portal (Don Octavio), Luis Álvarez (Don Ventura), Carlos López (Capitán Fajardo), Carmen Haro (Basilisa).
    Florence Dumont (harp), John Stoke (violoncello).
    EMI Classics 5 57127 2.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Schwartz: El hijo fingido. CD review on classical.net, accessed June 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Christopher Webber: Rodrigo - El hijo fingido. CD review on zarzuela.net, accessed June 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ Work information on lazarzuela.webcindario.com, accessed on June 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Work information in the catalog of the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales , accessed on June 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Amanda Holden (Ed.): The Viking Opera Guide. Viking, London / New York 1993, ISBN 0-670-81292-7 , p. 879.
  6. ↑ a b El hijo fingido (1955-60). Work information on joaquin-rodrigo.com, accessed on June 13, 2017.