Le lac des fées

Le lac des fées (The Fairy Lake) is a grand opera in five acts composed by Daniel Auber to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville (the pen name of Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier). The story is set in the Harz Mountains and based on a German ballad. The opera was premiered by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 1 April 1839.

Roles

Role[1] Voice type[2] Premiere Cast,[3] 1 April 1839
(Conductor: )
Zéila, young fairy soprano Maria Delorès Nau
Albert, student tenor Gilbert Duprez
Marguerite, innkeeper soprano Rosine Stoltz
Rodolphe de Cronembourg, seigneur châtelain bass Nicolas Levasseur
Issachar, Jewish merchant tenor Pierre François Wartel
Fritz, student, companion of Albert bass Ferdinand Prévôt
Conrad, student, companion of Albert tenor Alexis Dupont
Pickler, crook bass Molinier
Edda, young fairy soprano Élian Barthélemy
A young shepherd soprano Élian Barthélemy

References

Notes

  1. ^ Scribe libretto from Œuvres complètes, 1841.
  2. ^ Vocal score at IMSLP.
  3. ^ 1839 libretto; Tamvaco 2000, pp. 869–870.

Sources

  • Charlton, David, The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp 184–186. ISBN 0-521-64683-9
  • Chorley, Henry Fothergill, Modern German Music: Recollections and Criticisms, Smith, Elder, 1854, pp. 246–247.
  • Clément, Félix and Larousse, Pierre, "Lac des fées (Le)", Dictionnaire lyrique ou Histoire des opéras, Slatkine, 1999, p. 392 (in French). ISBN 2-05-101696-8
  • Tamvaco, Jean-Louis (2000). Les Cancans de l'Opéra. Chroniques de l'Académie Royale de Musique et du théâtre, à Paris sous les deux restorations (2 volumes, in French). Paris: CNRS Editions. ISBN 978-2-271-05685-6.