Adriana Lecouvreur

  • Maurizio, Count of Saxony (Tenor)
  • The Prince of Boullion ( bass)
  • The Abbe de Chazeuil (Tenor)
  • Minnochet, Director ( baritone)
  • Quinault, actor ( bass)
  • Poisson, actor ( Tenor)
  • Adriana Lecouvreur, actress (soprano )
  • The Princess of Boullion (mezzo- soprano)
  • The Steward (tenor )
  • Jouvenot, actress (soprano )
  • Dangeville, actress (mezzo- soprano)
  • Athenaide, Duchess of Aumont ( mute role )
  • The Marquise ( mute role )
  • The Baroness ( mute role )
  • A maid ( mute role )
  • Extras, stage assistants, servants (chorus )

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea. The text written Arturo Colautti based on a play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. The premiere took place on November 6, 1902 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan.

Action

Act 1

The star of the Comédie- Française, the actress Adriana Lecouvreur, loves the Count Maurizio. Her rival in this love is the Princess of Bouillon. Her husband, the Duke of Bouillon, has intercepted a letter from the princess to Maurizio. He keeps his mistress, the actress Duclos, for Absenderin, decides to lead the couple, and forward the letter on to the Count.

Act 2

In the rendezvous on the occasion of a feast at the villa of Duclos noticed the princess that she has lost Maurizio's love to another. The Prince arrives, and soon after Adriana. Maurizio hiding from the Prince and asks Adriana, the princess escape from her husband to allow. Out of love for him, she agrees.

Act 3

The princess gives certainty about who is her rival. She tells Adriana, Maurizio had been wounded in a duel. At Adriana's reaction, the princess can read their love for the Count. For this feint Adriana takes revenge by the last lines of a monologue from Phèdre by Racine as emphasized in their subsequent performance that they accuse the depraved morals of princes.

Act 4

On her birthday, Adriana first waits in vain for Maurizio. Among her gifts there is a box with a bunch of violets. Adriana, who holds the flowers for a parting gift of her lover, breathing in her scent. In truth, however, is the Princess of Bouillon, the Absenderin that has the flowers drizzled with a deadly poison. As Maurizio finally appears, Adriana dies in his arms.

Background

The title character is a historical person. Adrienne Lecouvreur was known in her time as the most important actress in France. They actually had an affair with Maurice of Saxony. Even his relationship with the Duchesse de Bouillon is occupied. After the death of Adrienne Lecouvreurs was rumored that she had been poisoned.

Your life made ​​a hundred years later the basis for a play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. The title role in this piece was represented, among others, by Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.

In the Milan premiere of Cilea's opera Enrico Caruso sang the Maurizio. The German premiere took place in Hamburg on 15 November 1903. One of the most important singers in the title role was the highly acclaimed soprano Magda Olivero Cilea (* 1910).

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Translations

  • Adriana Lecouvreur. Dramatic spectacle of E. Scribe and E. Legouvé processed in four acts for the operatic stage of A. Colautti. Music by Francesco Cilèa. German translation by Walter Dahms. Casa Musicala Sonzogno, Milano 1938

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