Les Quatre journées
Appearance
Les Quatre journées (Four Days) is a 1916 opera in four acts by Alfred Bruneau to a libretto he adapted from Émile Zola's short story "Les Quatre journées de Jean Gourdon"" from his 1874 collection Nouveaux contes à Ninon ,[1] one of several of Bruneau's operas based on texts by Zola. Les Quatre journées premiered on 19 December 1916 at the Opéra-Comique, Paris.[2] Bruneau dedicated the work to "Madame Paul de Choudens", his publisher's wife.[3]: 2 The four acts are named Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.
Roles
[edit]Role[3]: 3 | Age of the role throughout the opera | Voice type | Premiere cast, 19 December 1916 Conductor: Alfred Brumeau[1] |
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Babet | 16 years old in act 1; 40 years old in act 3; 58 years old in act 4 | soprano | Marthe Davelli |
Marguerite | 30 years old in act 3 and 48 years old in act 4 | contralto | Dolorès de Silvera |
Jean | 18 years old in act 1; 24 years old in act 2; 42 years old in act 3; 60 years old in act 4 | tenor | Charles Fontaine |
L'Abbé Lazare | 50 years old in act 1; 74 years old in act 3 | barytone | Jean Périer |
Frantz | 20 years old in act 2; 38 years old in act 3; 56 years old in act 4 | barytone or basso cantante | André Allard |
Jacques | 18 years old in act 4 | tenor | Arthur Lheureux[4][5] |
La petite Marie | 10 years old in act 4 | boy soprano | André |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Henri Mitterand, ed. (4 April 1969). Émile Zola – Théâtre et poèmes. Œuvres complètes, vol. 15 (in French). p. 772.
Les Quatre journées Le livret du dernier ouvrage de Bruneau d'après Émile Zola, un conte lyrique en quatre actes et cinq tableaux, a été tiré par le compositeur lui-même d'un des Nouveaux contes à Ninon.
- ^ "Les Quatre journées", Bru Zane Mediabase
- ^ a b Les quatre journées (Bruneau): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- ^ "Arthur Lheureux", François Nouvion and Robert Schlesinger, historicaltenors.net
- ^ Richard T. Soper: Belgian Opera Houses and Singers, The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1999. ISBN 9780871525161