Le roi l'a dit
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| Title: | The king said so |
| Original title: | Le roi l'a dit |
Title page of the libretto, Paris 1873 |
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| Shape: | Opéra-comique in three acts |
| Original language: | French |
| Music: | Léo Delibes |
| Libretto : | Edmond Gondinet |
| Premiere: | May 24, 1873 |
| Place of premiere: | Opéra-Comique , Paris |
| Playing time: | about 2 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Versailles, at the time of King Louis XIV. |
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Le roi l'a dit (German: The King said it ) is an opéra-comique in three acts by the French composer Léo Delibes ; the libretto created Edmond Gondinet . Your premiere saw this opera on 24 May 1873 the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
action
Mme de Maintenon's favorite parrot had escaped and Marquis de Moncontour had the honor and pleasure of catching it again.
In thanks, Mme de Maintenon interceded for the Marquis and introduced him to King Louis XIV . When the king speaks to him, he is so confused that he claims to have a son. Since the Marquis only has four daughters, he spontaneously adopted the farmer Benoît and introduced him to the court as his son.
Benoît enjoys his life at the court and gives the "Grand Seigneur" there. But since he staged all kinds of pranks, more and more people doubt his aristocratic origin. When he set fire to a monastery to free his four step-sisters, who are being raised there, the prank derails. The entire monastery complex falls victim to the flames, and as a result, Benoît has to face a duel. When he is injured in the process, the Marquis de Montcour takes this as an opportunity to declare his "son" dead.
King Louis XIV tries to alleviate the grief of the Marquis and unceremoniously elevates him to the rank of prince. To celebrate the day, Benoît gets the maid Javotte as his wife. In the midst of the cheering of those present, the curtain falls.
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwind : two flutes , two oboes , two clarinets , two bassoons
- Brass : four horns , two trumpets , three trombones
- Timpani , drums : triangle , bass drum , cymbals
- Strings
Work history
The first performance took place on May 24, 1873 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris under the musical direction of Adolphe Deloffre . Charles A. Cambon and Philippe Chaperon set the stage. The singers were Paul Lhérie (Benoît), Jean-Vital Jammes “Ismaël” (Marquis de Moncontour), Charles-Louis Sainte-Foy (Miton), Paul Fleuret “Barnolt” (Pacôme), François Bernard (Baron de Merlussac) and Joseph Thiérry (Gautru), Marguérite-Marie Sophie Pollart “Priola” (Javotte), Ganetti (Marquis de Flarembel), Julia Reine (Marquis de la Bluette), Antoinette-Jeanne Révilly (Marquise de Moncontour), Marguerite Chapuy (Philomène), J. Nadaud (Chimène), Guillot (Agathe) and Berthe Thibault (Angélique).
The librettists Ferdinand Gumbert and Adolf Schirmer translated the texts, and Der König has said it was first seen in Vienna in 1874 . It came to Germany a few years later and was first staged in Berlin in 1877.
In 1898 Philippe Gille edited this work and shortened it to two acts. This opera also had its premiere in this form at the Opéra-Comique (Paris).
literature
- Leo Melitz: Guide through the operas . Globus-Verlag, Berlin 1914, p. 191.
- Horst Seeger : Opera Lexicon . Heinrichshofens-Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1978, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1 , p. 472.
Web links
- Le roi l'a dit : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Work data for Le Roi l'a dit based on MGG with discography at Operone
- Delibes - Le Roi l'a Dit. Work information at Pavilion Music (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Theo Hirsbrunner : Le Roi l'a dit. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 1: Works. Abbatini - Donizetti. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-492-02411-4 , p. 702.
- ↑ May 24, 1873: “Le roi l'a dit”. In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..