Comédie-ballet

Comédie -ballet is a specifically French opera genre in which a spoken play with music and dance is loosened.

History

The first piece of this genus is Les fâcheux ( The Pesky ), which was in 1661 in honor of Louis XIV at Vaux -le- Vicomte, the residence of Nicolas Fouquet listed. The lyrics were written by Molière, the music of Jean -Baptiste Lully and the choreography by Pierre Beauchamp. All three worked in other parts of the comédie -ballet, especially the masterpiece of the genre, Le bourgeois gentilhomme ( The Bourgeois Gentleman ) of 1670th After Molière and Lully got into a dispute, was Marc- Antoine Charpentier in 1673 as a composer for Le malade imaginaire ( The Imaginary Invalid ) were used. In the fourth performance of Le malade imaginaire Molière suffered on February 17, 1673 faint and died a few days later.

In the 18th century comédie -ballet was considered unfashionable, but still maintained a long-lasting influence on the music in the French theater. A late example of this is La princesse de Navarre ( The Princess of Navarre ) by Voltaire. It was performed on February 23, 1745 in Versailles, and consists of a prologue and three acts, as well as an overture and three musical interludes. composed by Jean -Philippe Rameau. The vocal parts are considered particularly difficult and include a duet for hautes- contre.

Comédie -ballet and comédie lyrique

Although subject-specific, the term comédie -ballet is often limited only to the above-described form, used in the 18th century some authors the term to other Fomen the performing arts in particular to versions of the Komische Oper, which usually consists of three or four acts without spoken dialogues is. This differed from the opéra -ballet ( another genre, the music and dance mixed ) is that there is a continuous action possessed (instead of only the single file limited storylines ), and often comical or satirical features. This is similar to the comédie lyrique. Examples include Le carnaval et la folie (1703 ) by André Cardinal Destouches and La vénitienne ( 1768) by Antoine Dauvergne, a new version of the ballet of the same name published in 1705 by Michel de La Barre. A completely different use of the term de comédie - lyrique as a form of modern re-creation of the comédie -ballet, Le piège de Méduse (1913 ) by Erik Satie, a play in one act with seven short dance passages, which was originally composed for piano.

Enumeration of comédies - ballets

Comédies - ballets of Molière - Lully - Beauchamp

• Les fâcheux (1660 )
• La pastorale comique ( 1667)
• Le Sicily ( 1667)
• L' amour médecin ( 1665)
• George Dandin (1668 )
• Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ( 1669)
• Les amants magnifiques (1670 )
• Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670 )

Comédies - ballets of Molière - Charpentier - Beauchamp

• La Comtesse d' Escarbagnas ( 1671)
• Le malade imaginaire ( 1673 )

Comédie -ballet by Rameau Voltaire -

• La Princesse de Navarre ( 1745)

Swell

• Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C., " Comédie lyrique " and " Comédie -ballet ", in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (I, pp. 910-909 ), Grove ( Oxford University Press), New York, 1997 ( ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2 )
• Sawkins, Lionel, "haute - contre ", ibidem (II, pp. 668-69 )
• Caruselli, Salvatore ( ed.), Grande enciclopedia della musica lirica (III, article: " Lully, Giovanni Battista " ), Longanesi & C. Periodici SpA, Rome
• Le magazine de l' opéra baroque

• Opera Genre