Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué
| Work data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Gustav or The Masked Ball |
| Original title: | Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué |
Title page of the libretto, Paris 1833 |
|
| Shape: | Opera in five acts |
| Original language: | French |
| Music: | Daniel-François-Esprit Auber |
| Libretto : | Eugène Scribe |
| Premiere: | February 27, 1833 |
| Place of premiere: | Grand Opéra , Paris |
| Playing time: | about 3 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | In and near Stockholm 1792 |
| people | |
|
|
Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué (Eng. Gustav or The Masked Ball ) is a great historical opera in five acts, composed by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber on a libretto by Eugène Scribe . It was premiered on February 27, 1833 in the Salle de la rue Le Peletier of the Paris Opera .
action
The plot of this opera resembles Verdi's opera Amelia or a masked ball , the only difference being that Auber's work is set in a bourgeois - and not, as with Verdi, in a nobility - milieu. In Paris in 1861 for political reasons (after complaints from the Swedish court), the action was moved to Naples. King Gustav III of Sweden was considered one of the most colorful personalities in Europe. He was an enlightened monarch, famous as an art lover and notorious for his love of life. Because he wanted to abolish the privileges of the nobility, he attracted enemies. On March 16, 1792, the king was shot by the masked Count Johann Jakob Anckarström at a masked ball in the Stockholm Opera in front of the ball company , and died of blood poisoning just under two weeks later.
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : two flutes (2nd also piccolo ), two oboes , two clarinets , two bassoons
- Brass : four horns , two trumpets , three trombones , ophikleide
- Timpani , drums : bass drum , triangle , cymbals
- two harps
- Strings
- Incidental music: flute piccolo, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, triangle, two harps
Work history
At the premiere at the Paris Opera on February 27, 1833 , Adolphe Nourrit (Gustave III), Nicolas-Prosper Levasseur (Anckarström), Pierre-Auguste "Alexis" Dupont (Warting), Henri-Bernard Dabadie (horn), Hyacinthe- Maturin Trévaux (Chamberlain), Ferdinand Prévost (Armfelt), Pierre-François Wartel (Kaulbart), Jean-Étienne-August Eugène Massol (Christian), Marie-Cornélie Falcon (Amélie), Julie Dorus-Gras (Oscar) and Louise-Zulmé Dabadie-Leroux (Arvedson). The dancers included Lise Noblet-Dupont and Joseph Mazilier . The choreography came from Filippo Taglioni .
- Costumes from the premiere in 1833
Gustave III.
(Adolphe Nourrit)
Oscar (1)
(Julie Dorus-Gras)
Oscar (2)
(Julie Dorus-Gras)
Amélie
(Marie-Cornélie Falcon)
Slide
(Lise Noblet-Dupont)
magician
shepherdess
Chinese
_in_Gustave_III_by_Auber_1833_-_Gallica.jpg)
_in_Gustave_III_by_Auber_1833_-_Gallica.jpg)
A first German translation by Ignaz von Seyfried and Georg von Hofmann was performed on September 26, 1835 under the title Die Ballnacht in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna . The conductor of this performance was Wilhelm Reuling . In 1837 another German translation by Karl August von Lichtenstein was performed at the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin .
literature
- Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Gustav or the masked ball. Great historical opera in 5 acts . Reclam, Leipzig 1900 (opera books; 42)
- Herbert Schneider : Chronological-thematic directory of all works by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber . Olms, Hildesheim 1994 (musicological publications; 1)
Web links
- Gustave III : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto (French), Paris 1833. Digitized at Google Books
- Historical pictures at Gallica
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Finscher : Gustave ou Le Bal masqué. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 1: Works. Abbatini - Donizetti. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-492-02411-4 , pp. 107-109.
- ↑ February 27, 1833: “Gustave III”. In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..
- ↑ The night of the ball. Great opera in 5 acts, with divertissement. After the French. edit by Josef Ritter von Seyfried and Georg Edler von Hofmann. Music by Auber. Mausberger, Vienna 1835 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1953, vol. 11, half-vol. 2. p. 200 .
- ^ Michael Jahn : Reuling, Ludwig Wilhelm. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .