La fiancée

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Work data
Title: The bride
Original title: La fiancée
Shape: Opéra-comique in three acts
Original language: French
Libretto : Eugène Scribe
Premiere: January 10, 1829

La fiancée (Eng. The Bride , occasionally The Fiancee ) is an opéra-comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber . Eugène Scribe wrote the libretto . The joint work Daniel le lapidaire ou les contes de l'atelier by Raymond Bruckner and Michel Masson served him as a basis (this work appeared under the pseudonym Michel Raymond ).

The premiere in France took place on January 10, 1829 on the stage of the Opéra-Comique ( Paris ). At the end of the same year, Louis Angely had already translated the libretto and staged this opera at the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin . Karl August von Lichtenstein provided another translation / arrangement of this piece for the Court Opera in Vienna , where this work celebrated another premiere in 1831. Later Friederike Ellmenreich also provided a translation of this opera libretto.

literature

  • Michel Masson, Raymond Bruckner: Daniel le lapidaire ou les contes de l'atelier . Belser Wissenschaftlicher Dienst, Wildberg 1989/90, ISBN 3-62860626-8
  • Herbert Schneider: Chronological-thematic directory of all works by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber . Olms, Hildesheim 1994, ISBN 3-487-09866-0 (2 vols.)
  • Horst Seeger : Opera Lexicon . Heinrichshofen Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1987, pp. 194-195, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. The original was published in 1929 by Levasseur, Paris under the pseudonym "Michel Raymond".