Adolphe Adam

Adolphe Charles Adam ( pronunciation: [ a'dɑ ] or because of Alsatian origin also [ a'dam ] ) ( born July 24, 1803 in Paris, † May 3, 1856 ) was a French opera and ballet composer.

Life

The son of the composer and piano virtuoso Louis Adam was a pupil of his father, Anton Reicha's students and for a short time Boieldieu at the Paris Conservatory. His career as a composer, he started with fantasies and variations on operatic melodies, then wrote arias for the smaller vaudeville theaters and several operettas and entered 1836 with the opera The postilion of Lonjumeau out who earned general acclaim. It was followed soon a series of similar works in the light comic genre, as the brewer of Preston, to faithful Shepherd, The Rose of Peronne and The King of Yvetot through which Adam has won an honorable place among the composers of the modern era.

His compositional talent was discovered and promoted at the Conservatory of François Adrien Boieldieu. After his studies, he was temporarily head of an opera company and was able to celebrate some success as a piano virtuoso. At 26, Adam wrote his first one-act opera Pierre et Catherine. Then he composed in just under two years, five more operas, most of which were in the style of opera buffa. The French Christmas carol Minuit Chrétien (O Holy Night ) was written by him. Good luck had his melodies rich and spirited orchestrated ballet Giselle.

Charles Adolphe Adam in 1844 was appointed a member of the Institut de France. In 1847 he founded a third lyric theater in Paris which is initially achieved almost unprecedented success, but as a result of the February Revolution of 1848 perished, with Adam forfeited all his considerable fortune. Soon afterwards (1849 ) he was appointed in place of his father as a teacher of composition at the Conservatoire, where he worked until his death. In all, he composed 53 operas and ballets.

Works

Ballets

• La Chatte blanche, along with Casimir Gide. Premiere: July 26, 1830 Paris, Théâtre des NouveautÃ
• Faust, Act 3. Premiere: 1832 London
• La Fille du Danube, 2 record (4 pictures). Libretto: Eugène Desmares. Choreographed by Filippo Taglioni. Premiere: 21 S9.1836 Paris Opéra
• Les Mohicans, 2 acts. Choreography: F.Guerra. Premiere: July 5, 1837 Paris, Opéra
• L' écumeur des mers (1840 )
• The Hamadryads, choreographic and musical interlude, 2 parts. Choreography: de Colombey and Paolo Taglioni. Premiere: April 28, 1840 Berlin, Königl.Theater
• Giselle ou les Willis, German Giselle, ballet - pantomime 2 file (160 min.) Libretto: Théophile Gautier and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint- Georges, after Heinrich Heine. Choreography: Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. Premiere: June 28, 1841 Paris, Opéra. German: Berlin 1843
• La jolie Fille de Gand, ballet - pantomime Act 3 (9 pictures ) (90 min.) Libretto: Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges and Albert. Choreography: Albert ( F.Decombe ). Premiere: June 22, 1842 Paris, Opéra
• Le Diable à quatre, ballet - pantomime, 2 record (4 pictures ) (90 min.) Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven after Jean Michel Sedaine. Choreography: Joseph Mazilier. Premiere: August 11, 1845 Paris, Opéra. German: Hamburg 1846
• La Fille de marbre (1845 )
• Griselda ou Les Cinq Sens, 3 acts. Libretto: Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir. Choreography: N.Mazilier. Premiere: February 16, 1848 Paris, Opéra
• Le filleule des fées, along with A.de Clemenceau de Saint -Julien. Ballet féerie 3 acts ( 7 images ) (150 min.) Libretto: Jules Perrot and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Choreography: Jules Perrot. Premiere: October 8, 1849 Paris, Opéra
• Orfa, 2 acts. Libretto: François- Hippolyte Levroy and Henri Trianon. Choreography: N.Mazilier. Premiere: December 29, 1852 Paris, Opéra
• Le Corsaire, ballet - pantomime, 3 acts ( 5 pictures) and epilogue. Libretto: Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint- Georges, after Lord Byron The Corsair. Choreography: Joseph Mazilier. Premiere: January 3, 1856 Paris, Opéra

Operas

• La baiser au porteur, Vaudeville. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe, Justin Marie Alexis Gensoul and Charles de Courcy. Premiere: June 9, 1824 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• Les Hussards de Felsheim, Vaudeville Act 3. Premiere: March 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• L' exiles, Vaudeville. Premiere: Spring 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• La dame jaune, Vaudeville. Premiere: Spring 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• L' héritière et l' Orpheline, Vaudeville. Premiere: May 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• Perkins Warbeck, Vaudeville Act 3. Premiere: Fall 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• Monsieur Botte, Vaudeville Act 3. Premiere: November 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• Le caleb de Walter Scott, Vaudeville act 1 Premiere: December 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• Le Mal du pays ou La Batelière de Brientz, operetta one act Libretto: Eugène Scribe Augustin and Anne -Honoré- Joseph Duveyrier ( Mélesville ). Premiere: December 28, 1827 Paris, Théâtre du Gymnase - dramatique
• Valentine, Vaudeville Act 2. Premiere: Spring 1828 Paris, Théâtre des NouveautÃ
• Barber Le Châtelain, Vaudeville Act 3. Premiere: Spring 1828 Paris, Théâtre des NouveautÃ
• Guillaume Tell, incidental music, drama five acts. Libretto: Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine, Charles Désiré Dupeuty and Villeneuve, by Friedrich Schiller. Premiere: June 16, 1828 Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• Le Jeune Propriétaire et le vieux fermier, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Armand d' Artois. Premiere: February 6, 1829 ParisThéâtre of NouveautÃ
• Pierre et Catherine, opéra comique, one act Libretto: Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Premiere: September 1829 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Isaura, incidental music, drama 3 acts. Libretto: Antier and Nézel. Premiere: October 1, 1829 Paris, Théâtre des NouveautÃ
• Danilova, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Jean Baptiste Charles Vial and Paul Duport. April 23, 1830 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Les Trois Catherine, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Guillaume Edouard Monnais and Paul Duport. Premiere: July 26, 1830 Paris, Théâtre des NouveautÃ
• Trois Jours en une heure, Opéra comique 1 act together with Henri Romagnesi. Libretto: Jules Joseph Gabriel and Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson. Premiere: August 21, 1830 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Joséphine ou Le Retour de Wagram, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Jules Joseph Gabriel and Ferdinand Simon de Laboullaye. Premiere: December 2, 1830 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Le Morceau d'ensemble, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Frédéric de Courcy and Pierre François Adolphe Carmouche. Premiere: March 7, 1831 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Le Grand Prix ou Le Voyage à frais communs, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Jules Joseph Gabriel and Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson. Premiere: July 9, 1831 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Casimir ou Le Premier tête-à- tête, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Charles Desnoyers. Premiere: December 1, 1831 Paris, Théâtre des NouveautÃ
• His First Campaign, Military Spectacle two acts. Libretto: James Robinson Planché. Premiere: October 1, 1832 London, Covent Garden
• The Dark Diamond Historical Melodrama 3 acts. Premiere: November 5, 1832 London, Covent Garden
• Le Proscrit ou Le Tribunal invisible, Drame lyrique 3 acts. Libretto: Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine and Pierre François Adrien Carmouche. Premiere: September 18, 1833 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Une Bonne Fortune, Opéra comique one act Libretto: A.Fénéol and Edouard Mennechet. Premiere: January 23, 1834 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Le chalet, opéra comique one act Libretto: Eugène Scribe Augustin and Anne -Honoré- Joseph Duveyrier ( Mélesville ), according to Goethe JWvon Jery and Bäteli. Premiere: September 25, 1834 Paris, Opéra -Comique. English The Swiss Cottage: September 12, 1836 New York. German: Frankfurt December 8, 1846.
• La Marquise, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges and Adolphe de Leuven. Premiere: February 28, 1835 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Micheline ou L' Heure de l' esprit, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Auguste Michel Benoît Gaudichot Masson, Theodore Ferdinand Vallou de Villeneuve and Amable Villain de Saint -Hilaire. Premiere: June 29, 1835 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Le Postilion de Lonjumeau, Opéra comique 3 file (120 min.) Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. Premiere: October 13, 1836 Paris, Opéra -Comique. English Postilion! , March 30, 1837 London. The German postilion of Lonjumeau, May 11, 1837 in Prague; June 3, 1837 Berlin
• Le Fidele Berger, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Premiere: January 6, 1838 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: September 15, 1838 Berlin
• Le Brasseur de Preston, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. Premiere: October 31, 1838 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: March 21, 1839 Hamburg. For this work the Narrhalla march comes
• Régine ou Les Deux Nuits, Opéra comique 2 acts. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe. Premiere: January 17, 1839 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: August 24, 1839 Berlin
• La Reine d' un jour, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Premiere: September 19, 1839 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: March 23, 1840 in Munich, April 14, 1840 Berlin
• La Rose de Peronne, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven Adolphe and d' Ennery. Premiere: December 12, 1840 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• La Main de fer ou Un mariage secret, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe and Adolphe de Leuven. Premiere: October 26, 1841 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Le Roi d' YVETOT, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. Premiere: October 13, 1842 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: March 25, 1843 Leipzig
• Lambert Simuel, Opéra comique 3 acts. Completion of the opera by François Louis H.Monpou. Libretto: Eugène Scribe Augustin and Anne Honoré Joseph Mélesville. Premiere: September 14, 1843 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Cagliostro, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Premiere: February 10, 1844 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Richard en Palestine, Grand Opéra 3 acts. Libretto: Paul Foucher. Premiere: October 7, 1844 Paris, Opéra
• La bouquetière, Opéra one act Libretto: Julien Hippolyte Joseph Lucas. Premiere: May 31, 1847 Paris, Opéra
• Les Premiers Pas ou Les Deux Génies ou Les Mémoires de la blanchisseuse, pastiche one act and Prolog. Together with Daniel François E.Auber, Michele Carafa and Jacques Fromental Halévy. Libretto: Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. Premiere: November 15, 1847 Paris, Opéra
• Le Toréador ou L' Accord parfait, German The Toreador or The perfect agreement, Opéra comique 2 acts. Libretto: Thomas Marie François Sauvage. Premiere: May 18, 1849 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: March 27, 1909 Berlin
• Le beacon, Opéra 2 acts. Libretto: Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Premiere: December 24, 1849 Paris, Opéra
• Giralda ou La Nouvelle Psyché, German Giralda or the new Psyché, Opéra comique 3 file (135 min.) Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe. Premiere: July 20, 1850 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German: February 25, 1851 Berlin
• La Poupée de Nuremberg, German The Nuremberg Doll, Opéra comique Act 1 (60 min). Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Victor Arthur Rousseau de Beauplan. Premiere: February 21, 1852 Paris, Opéra Comique. German: November 26, 1852 in Berlin. English Dolly: December 26, 1860 Cork
• Le Farfadet, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Eugène François Antoine de Planard. Premiere: March 19, 1852 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Si j'étais roi, German If I were King, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe d' Ennery and Jules Henri Brésil. Premiere: September 4, 1852 Paris, the Théâtre Lyrique. German: January 21, 1904 Wroclaw
• La Faridondaine, incidental music, drama five acts. Together with Louis Adolphe de Groot. Premiere: December 30, 1852 Paris, Porte St. Martin
• Le Sourd ou L' Auberge pleine, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Ferdinand LANGLE, by Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges. Premiere: February 2, 1853 Paris, Opéra -Comique. German No room at the inn: December 2, 1861 Vienna
• Le Roi des Halles, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. Premiere: April 11, 1853 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
• Le Bijou perdu, Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Philippe Auguste Alfred Pittaud de Forges. Premiere: October 6, 1853 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
• Le Muletier de Tolède. Opéra comique 3 acts. Libretto: Adolphe Philippe d' Ennery and Charles Clairsville. Premiere: December 16, 1854 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
• À Clichy, épisode de la vie d'un artiste, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Adolphe Philippe d' Ennery and Eugène Grange. Premiere: December 24, 1854 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
• Le Housard de Berenchy, Opéra comique 2 acts. Libretto: Joseph Bernard Rosier. Premiere: October 17, 1855 Paris, Opéra -Comique
• Falstaff, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Adolphe de Leuven and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint -Georges. Premiere: January 18, 1856 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
• Mam'zelle Geneviève, Opéra comique 2 acts. Libretto: Arthur de Beauplan and Léon Lévy Brunswick. Premiere: March 23, 1856 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
• Les Pantins de Violette, Opéra comique one act Libretto: Léon Battu. Premiere: April 29, 1856 Paris, Bouffes. German: September 7, 1861 Vienna
• Le Dernier bal, Opéra comique. Libretto: Augustin Eugène Scribe. Not listed