Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs

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Work data
Title: Julie or The Flower Pot
Original title: Julie, ou Le Pot de fleurs
Shape: Opéra-comique in one act
Original language: French
Music: Gaspare Spontini
Libretto : Antoine Gabriel Jars
Premiere: 1) March 12, 1805
2) June 26, 1825
Place of premiere: 1) Opéra-Comique , Paris
2) National Theater Magdeburg
Playing time: Around 1 hour
Place and time of the action: Paris
people
  • Julie ( soprano )
  • Mondor, her uncle ( bass )
  • Verseuil, a friend of Mondor (bass)
  • Valcour, a young officer, Verseuil's cousin, Julie's lover ( tenor )
  • Champagne, servant in Mondor's house (speaking role)
  • a lackey (silent role)

Julie, ou Le Pot de fleurs is an opera comique (original name: "Comédie en prose mêlée de chants") in an act by Gaspare Spontini with a libretto by Antoine Gabriel Jars .

action

Mondors wants to convey his ward to his friend as a bride, who agrees with a heavy heart, but drops a flower pot out of the window to attract the attention of her lover, who is just passing by. However, the pot hits him on the shoulder. He comes up and meets his beloved there in the presence of her future bridegroom. The latter in turn claims to be their uncle and uses it to hear them out. When the uncle actually comes, the jealous lover initially takes him for a rival. At the end everything dissolves harmoniously.

Instrumentation

The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:

Work history

Emergence

The first version of Spontini's opera was written after the libretto had already been submitted in 1804 in the setting by the composer Etienne Fay. The work was then premiered on March 12, 1805 in the Salle Favart of the Opéra-Comique . The role of Verseuil was played by the baritone Jean-Pierre Solié , who also emerged as a composer .

reception

After the opera had gone through numerous stages in half of Europe, a second version in German was created for the so-called “National Theater” in Magdeburg and was premiered there on June 26, 1825 under the title Julie or The Flower Pot . In 1968 the opera was rediscovered and performed in Italian. It was also recorded for the record. There was another recording in Italian in 1975 (cast: Bruno Rigacci, Amilcare Blaffard, Mariella Devia, Valeria Mariconda, Carlo Micalucci, Antonio Savastano and Ugo Trama).

literature

  • Charles Bouvet: Spontini . Édition Rieder, Paris 1930.
  • Dennis Albert Libby: Gaspare Spontini and His French and German Operas . UMI Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1994 (2 vols., Plus dissertation, Princeton University 1969).
  • Paolo Fragapane: Spontini . Sansoni, Florence 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anno Mungen : Julie ou Le Pot de fleurs. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 5: Works. Piccinni - Spontini. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02415-7 , pp. 770-771.