Aucassin et Nicolette (Grétry opera)
Template:Grétry operasAucassin et Nicolette, ou Les moeurs du bon vieux tems is a French comédie mise en musique in four acts by André Grétry. The work was first performed by the Comédie-Italienne at the Palace of Versailles on 30 December 1779 and at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris on 3 January 1780.
The libretto was by Michel-Jean Sedaine after the early medievalist Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye's Les amours du bon vieux tems.
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Première cast, 30 December 1779 (Conductor: - ) |
Paris cast, 3 January 1780 (Conductor: - ) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolette | soprano | Rose-Louise Dugazon | Rose-Louise Dugazon |
| Aucassin | tenor | Jean-Baptiste Guignard "Clairval" | |
| Vicomte Beaucaire | tenor | ||
| Marcou | tenor | ||
| Comte Garin | bass | ||
| Comte Bongars | bass | ||
| Bredau | bass | ||
| Shepherd | bass |
Sources
- Period libretto: Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les Mœurs du bon vieux tems. Comédie, En quatre Actes, en Vers, melée d'Ariettes, Paris, Didot, 1789 (accessible online as a Goggle ebook-gratis)
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Aucassin et Nicolette". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
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