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Le Comte Ory: Anecdote Du Xie Siècle, Vaudeville En Un Acte...
Le comte Ory est une oeuvre du XIXe siècle, composée par Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson et Eugène Scribe. Cette pièce de vaudeville en un acte est une histoire amusante et légère qui suit les aventures du comte Ory alors qu'il tente de séduire la comtesse Adèle lors de l'absence de son mari. Avec sa musique entraînante et ses scènes comiques, Le comte Ory est une pièce classique du théâtre français qui est toujours appréciée aujourd'hui This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
28 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1986
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Eugène Scribe
1,154 books4 followersAugustin Eugène Scribe was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas and opéras-comiques.
Born to a middle-class Parisian family, Scribe was intended for a legal career, but was drawn to the theatre, and began writing plays while still in his teens. His early years as a playwright were unsuccessful, but from 1815 onwards he prospered. Writing, usually with one or more collaborators, he produced several hundred stage works. He wrote to entertain the public rather than educate it. Many of his plays were written in a formulaic manner which aimed at neatness of plot and focus on dramatic incident rather than naturalism, depth of characterisation or intellectual substance. For this he was much criticised by intellectuals, but the "well-made play" remained established in the theatre in France and elsewhere long after his death.
In 1813 Scribe wrote his first opera libretto. From 1822 until his death he was closely associated with the composer Daniel Auber for whom he wrote or co-wrote 39 librettos, among them that for the first French grand opera, La Muette de Portici (1828). His second most frequent musical partner was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who took grand opera further and made it a dominant feature of French musical life. Among the other composers with whom Scribe worked were Adolphe Adam, Adrien Boieldieu, Gaetano Donizetti, Fromental Halévy, Jacques Offenbach and Giuseppe Verdi.
Scribe's librettos are still performed in opera houses around the world, and although few of his non-musical plays have been revived frequently in the 20th or 21st centuries, his influence on subsequent generations of playwrights in France and elsewhere was profound and lasting.
Born to a middle-class Parisian family, Scribe was intended for a legal career, but was drawn to the theatre, and began writing plays while still in his teens. His early years as a playwright were unsuccessful, but from 1815 onwards he prospered. Writing, usually with one or more collaborators, he produced several hundred stage works. He wrote to entertain the public rather than educate it. Many of his plays were written in a formulaic manner which aimed at neatness of plot and focus on dramatic incident rather than naturalism, depth of characterisation or intellectual substance. For this he was much criticised by intellectuals, but the "well-made play" remained established in the theatre in France and elsewhere long after his death.
In 1813 Scribe wrote his first opera libretto. From 1822 until his death he was closely associated with the composer Daniel Auber for whom he wrote or co-wrote 39 librettos, among them that for the first French grand opera, La Muette de Portici (1828). His second most frequent musical partner was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who took grand opera further and made it a dominant feature of French musical life. Among the other composers with whom Scribe worked were Adolphe Adam, Adrien Boieldieu, Gaetano Donizetti, Fromental Halévy, Jacques Offenbach and Giuseppe Verdi.
Scribe's librettos are still performed in opera houses around the world, and although few of his non-musical plays have been revived frequently in the 20th or 21st centuries, his influence on subsequent generations of playwrights in France and elsewhere was profound and lasting.
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May 31, 2021
The following is not a review; I like to keep notes of the production I watched after reading the libretto:
30 May 2021 Met Opera Stream: "Tenor Juan Diego Flórez takes on the title role in the 2011 Met-premiere production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory. The sensational bel canto cast also features soprano Diana Damrau as Countess Adèle, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Isolier, and baritone Stéphane Degout as Raimbaud, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Enjoy the madcap production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher."
30 May 2021 Met Opera Stream: "Tenor Juan Diego Flórez takes on the title role in the 2011 Met-premiere production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory. The sensational bel canto cast also features soprano Diana Damrau as Countess Adèle, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Isolier, and baritone Stéphane Degout as Raimbaud, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Enjoy the madcap production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher."
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