L'amant statue

Template:Dalayrac operas L'amant statue is an opera in one act by composer Nicolas Dalayrac with a French libretto by Fouques Desfontaines. The opera was premiered by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 4 August 1785. It was revived on 30 September 1802 at the Salle Feydeau.^[1]

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast,^[2] 4 August 1785 Conductor:
Célimène	soprano	Rose Renaud
Rosette	soprano	Marie Desbrosses
Dorval	tenor	Louis Michu
Frontin	baritone	Meunier^[3]

L'amant statue with conductor Michael Cook and the Orchestre du Festival de Saint-Céré. Cast includes: Elisabeth Duval (Célimène), Jean-Pierre Chevalier (Dorval), Florence Launay (Rosette), and Francis Dudziak (Frontin). Recorded live on August 8, 1985. Released on the Ariane-Scalen label.

Notes

^ Wild & Charlton 2005, pp. 50, 131. Another source states the opera was premiered 4 August 1785 at the Palace of Fontainebleau in the presence of King Louis XVI of France (L'amant statue von Dalayrac Archived 2008-12-11 at the Wayback Machine). Desfontaines' libretto had previously been performed as an opéra-comique en vaudevilles (that is, without the music of Dalayrac), first at Brunoy on 23 November 1780, and then at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris on 20 February 1781 (Wild & Charlton).
^ 1785 libretto; full names from Kutsch & Riemens 2003.
^ Possibly Julien Meunier (see "10 Novembre 1777" at amadeusonline).

Sources

Karl-Josef Kutsch, Riemens, Leo (2003). Großes Sängerlexikon (fourth edition, in German). Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 9783598115981.
Wild, Nicole; Charlton, David (2005). Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique Paris: répertoire 1762-1972. Sprimont, Belgium: Editions Mardaga. ISBN 9782870098981.