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Le Soprano: Comédie-Vaudeville en un Acte
Dans un grand palais de Rome, un vaudeville ingénieux et rythmé se déroule autour de la musique, de l'ambition et de loyautés erronées.
Cette comédie en un acte réunit un organiste talentueux, un maestro intrigant, une mécène coquette et une jeune soprano dont le destin pourrait changer la fortune de chacun. Alors que les plans se heurtent aux représentations, l'esprit et le charme animent une intrigue vive, pleine de musique, de couleurs et de manigances.
Rencontrez une troupe haute en couleur dans un décor qui mêle la vie de cour aux artifices de la scène. Suivez les doubles vies, les quiproquos d'identité et les tensions entre art et mécénat. Assistez à la collision de la musique et de la romance dans des quiproquos humoristiques et révélateurs. Vivez un drame vif et divertissant qui associe la farce à l'ambition des coulisses. Idéal pour les amateurs de comédies de coulisses classiques et de farces théâtrales ancrées dans un passé richement dépeint.
Cette comédie en un acte réunit un organiste talentueux, un maestro intrigant, une mécène coquette et une jeune soprano dont le destin pourrait changer la fortune de chacun. Alors que les plans se heurtent aux représentations, l'esprit et le charme animent une intrigue vive, pleine de musique, de couleurs et de manigances.
Rencontrez une troupe haute en couleur dans un décor qui mêle la vie de cour aux artifices de la scène. Suivez les doubles vies, les quiproquos d'identité et les tensions entre art et mécénat. Assistez à la collision de la musique et de la romance dans des quiproquos humoristiques et révélateurs. Vivez un drame vif et divertissant qui associe la farce à l'ambition des coulisses. Idéal pour les amateurs de comédies de coulisses classiques et de farces théâtrales ancrées dans un passé richement dépeint.
64 pages, Hardcover
Published August 24, 2018
About the author
Eugène Scribe
1,140 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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