Cyrano de Bergerac (play)

Cyrano de Bergerac [ siʀano dəbɛʀʒəʀak ] is a romantic - comedy verse drama, the Edmond Rostand wrote in 1897 - the first performance took place on December 28, 1897, from the Théâtre de la Porte Saint -Martin.

Content

The title character Cyrano de Bergerac, a French poet of the 17th century, suffers his huge nose. Many scoffers dies in a duel. Nevertheless de Bergerac is described as sensitive; he is in love with his handsome cousin Roxane. Because he fears their rejection, he hides his true feelings. As Roxane confesses her affection for Christian Neuvillette, de Bergerac is ready to support this by writing poems in his place. The pretty, but regarded as " arrant fool " Christian Neuvillette serves in the same regiment as de Bergerac in the Gascon cadets.

In order to satisfy the claims of the beloved romantic, lends de Bergerac his rival his poetic talent, so Neuvillette enjoying success alone. Finally de Bergerac convinced the two of them to come to the altar and escapes Roxane so the Count Guiche, who wants to make her his mistress. Guiche is angry and he retaliates by sending the Gascon cadets including de Bergerac and Neuvillette in the war to the forefront.

Although starved and besieged by the Spanish besiegers de Bergerac smuggling on behalf of Neuvillette daily two letters to Roxane through the enemy lines. Because of these letters Roxane rushes right into the army camp to her husband, whom she now admits to no longer love him because of his " outer shell ", but because of the beauty of his soul. Christian Neuvillette is horrified because he knows that he was not honest Roxane opposite. But just before de Bergerac can say the common lover the true author of the letters, makes the Death Note a: Neuvillette has fallen silent and de Bergerac to get the grieving Roxane the memory of the love heroes. It was not until 14 years later discovered Roxane, who has retreated to a monastery, the truth. However de Bergerac is just before the obligatory visit seriously wounded Saturday when his cousin by a stop, so that he, weakened by loss of blood and feverish delusions, dies in her arms.

Cyrano de Bergerac is often used as examples for the motives of the Ghostwriters and the "good core behind less respectable facade".

Films and musical settings

• The drama was filmed several times (see also: Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)).
• Franco Alfano opera, composed in 1936, was in 2002 at the Kiel Opera in 2003 in Montpellier and 2004/ 05 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, again listed here with Plácido Domingo in the title role. Productions in Paris, at the Baden State Theatre Karlsruhe and Valencia followed. Another opera, in Estonian, was composed by Eino Tamberg. Walter Damrosch scoring came in 1913 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York out.
• An eponymous musical with music by Marc Schubring and texts by Wolfgang Adenberg in 1995 in Saarbrücken State Theatre premiere. The role of Christian was interpreted by Jonas Kaufmann.
• Another musical came out in 1999: Cyrano - The Musical by Ad van Dijk and Koen van Dijk, the German texts are by Curt Werner ( Dutch original title from 1992: Cyrano - De Musical)
• Hal Shaper and David Reeves wrote in 1996 an English musical Cyrano - The Musical
• Another English-language musical entitled Cyrano comes from Anthony Burgess and Michael J. Lewis
• English-language musical Maltby & Shire's Cyrano by Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire
• The Last Musketeer, feature film (1950 ) with José Ferrer in the title role
• Marius Constant wrote in 1959 a ballet entitled Cyrano
• The American Comedy Roxanne moved the topic to the modern era and in the United States.
• The music for the film adaptation of Jean -Paul Rappeneau with Gérard Depardieu in the title role wrote Jean -Claude Petit
• The Dutch composer and organist Johan Wagenaar wrote in 1905 an overture entitled Cyrano de Bergerac
• The choreographer Anna Vita brought in 2013 at the Theatre of Würzburg in a ballet version with the title of Cyrano de Bergerac.
• There is also a three-person version of the Horst Kiss, among others The Fritz Theater Chemnitz in the repertoire
• Venezuelan film 2007: Cyrano Fernandez, in which the action to Caracas is laid in modern times