L'Arlesiana
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| Title: | The girl from Arles |
| Original title: | L'Arlesiana |
Title page of the libretto, Milan 1897 |
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| Shape: | Opera in four or three acts |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Francesco Cilea |
| Libretto : | Leopoldo Marenco |
| Literary source: | Play L'Arlésienne by Alphonse Daudet |
| Premiere: | November 27, 1897 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro Lirico, Milan |
| Playing time: | approx. 2 ¼ hours |
| Place and time of the action: | a village near Arles in the 19th century |
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L'Arlesiana is an opera (dramma lirico) in four acts (original version) by Francesco Cilea , which is sometimes given the German title Das Mädchen aus Arles . The text was written by Leopoldo Marenco . It is based on Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne from Letters from My Mill . The first performance took place on November 27, 1897 in the Teatro Lirico in Milan . Georges Bizet composed the incidental music L'Arlésienne as early as 1872 , which is also based on Daudet's play.
Emergence
Cilea composed the opera between 1892 and 1897, initially in four acts. At the world premiere at the Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1897, the young Enrico Caruso shone in the role of Federico, which contributed to his later glamorous singing career. In 1898 Cilea wrote a new version in which Acts II and III were combined. By adding a prelude in 1912, a third version was created, which is still mostly performed today. Other minor changes to the score were made between 1936 and 1940. The opera is rarely featured in the opera houses' repertoire and is sometimes performed in concerts, for example at the Deutsche Oper Berlin 2018 or as a rarity at festivals, for example at the Wexford Festival in 2012 .
action
The landowner Rosa Mamai lives with her sons Federico and the mentally retarded L'Innocente in the countryside near Arles . Federico fell in love with a girl from Arles called L'Arlesiana. Rosa would rather see a connection between her son and Vivetta, a girl from the neighborhood who also genuinely loves him. Federico, on the other hand, only has thoughts for L'Arlesiana and rejects Vivetta. The horse herdsman Metifio is also in love with L'Arlesiana. He presents letters that are supposed to document their immoral lifestyle. Thereupon the disappointed Federico turns to Vivetta after all. However, when he learns that Metifio wants to kidnap L'Arlesiana on horseback and just want to have fun, he commits suicide out of desperation by jumping out of the roof window of a hayloft.
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : three flutes (3rd also piccolo ), two oboes , English horn , two clarinets , two bassoons
- Brass : four horns , three trumpets , three trombones , bass tuba
- Timpani , percussion : bass drum , snare drum , cymbals , triangle , tam-tam , tambourine , sistrum , small bells in b, c sharp, f sharp and g sharp
- Celesta
- harp
- Strings
- Incidental music: harmonium
Total recordings
- L'Arlesiana - Ferruccio Tagliavini , Pia Tassinari, Paolo Silveri , Gianna Galli - Coro e Orchestra della RAI Torino, Arturo Basile - Cetra Records (1955)
- L'Arlesiana - Giuseppe Filianoti, Iano Tamar, Francesco Landolfi, Mirela Bunoaica - Opernchor des Theater Freiburg, Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Fabrice Bollon - CPO: 7778052 (record label) (2014)
- L'Arlesiana - Dmitry Golovnin, Annunziata Vestri, Stefano Antonucci, Mariangela Sicilia - Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini ", Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Francesco Cilluffo - Dynamic (record label) (2015)
literature
- Ulrich Schreiber : Opera guide for advanced learners. 20th Century II. German and Italian Opera after 1945, France, Great Britain. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1437-2 , p. 390.
- Giancosimo Russo: L'Arlesiana di Cilea dall'ipotesto all'opera. Aracne, Rome 2016, ISBN 978-88-255-1765-1 .
Web links
- L'arlesiana : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto (Italian), Milan 1897. Digital copy from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
- Libretto (Italian), Milan 1899/1934. Digitized version of the Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali of the University of Pavia
- L'arlesiana (Francesco Cilea) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Discography of L'Arlesiana at Operadis
- Photos from a performance by the Sarasota Opera in 1998
Individual evidence
- ↑ network information on esdf-opera.de, accessed on 11 December 2017th
- ↑ Information on the work at Klassika, accessed on December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Thomas Molke: Between strong women. Review of the Wexford Festival performance in Online Musik Magazin, accessed December 11, 2017.
- ^ Egon Voss : L'Arlesiana. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 1: Works. Abbatini - Donizetti. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-492-02411-4 , pp. 582-583.