Le Soprano: Comédie-Vaudeville En Un Acte (Classic Reprint)

by Eugène Scribe

Un vaudeville musical au cœur d’un palais, où l’art et l’ambition s’entrechoquent Dans ce vaudeville scénique, l’art et les intrigues se mêlent au sein d’un palais où musiciens, prélats et nobles se croisent.

Le récit suit des personnages colorés—aussi bien organiste que soprano—qui naviguent entre rêves de gloire, protections courtisées et malentendus comiques. Avec humour et tempo musical, l’œuvre explore le prix de la réussite et les chemins surprenants par lesquels la musique peut influencer les destinées.



Entre situations cocasses, duels de vanity et scènes de répétition, le récit met en avant des échanges vifs, des alliances inattendues et des rebondissements qui comptent autant sur le ton que sur la musique qui les porte.

Des personnages hauts en couleur, dont un organiste ambitieux et une diva prête à tout pour percer. Des dialogues rapides et des situations humoristiques dans un décor de palais cardinalice. Des intrigues amoureuses et professionnelles qui s’entremêlent autour d’un esprit de troupe. Une énergie de scène qui tourne autour de la musique, des accords et des envies de succès. Idéal pour les lecteurs qui aiment les comédies musicales et les intrigues où l’art influence les vies et les choix. Si vous cherchez une histoire légère, rythmée et pleine de malice, ce livre est pour vous.


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62 pages, Hardcover

Published September 8, 2018

About the author

Augustin 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.