La fausse esclave
Template:Gluck operasLa fausse esclave ("The False Slave") is an opéra comique in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a French-language libretto based on Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville’s libretto for La fausse aventurière (The False Adventuress), an opéra comique by Jean Louis Laruette. It was first performed on 8 January 1758 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The full score is lost, but a keyboard version is extant.
Klaus Hortschansky has noted that La fausse esclave is one of Gluck's few stageworks where the composer did not use musical material from prior works, or recycle material from it into future works.[1]
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, 8 January 1758 (Conductor:) |
|---|---|---|
| Agathe | soprano | |
| Lisette | soprano | |
| Valère | tenor | |
| Chrisante | baritone |
Synopsis
The story is of an intrigue undertaken to secure a father’s assent to his daughter’s marriage.
References
- Notes
- ^ Selden, Margery Stomne, Review of Parodie und Entlehnung im Schaffen Christoph Willibald Glucks by Klaus Hortschansky (Spring 1976). Journal of the American Musicological Society, 29 (1): pp. 148-151.
- Sources
- Casaglia, Gherardo, "8 Gennaio 1758", Amadeus Almanac, 2005, accessed 29 January 2010
- Naxos Records, "Fausse esclave, La (The False Slave)". Accessed from Index of Operas by Composer, 30 September 2008.