List of operas by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
This is a list of the complete operas of the French composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729–1817). The majority of Monsigny's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique, first at the Parisian fairs of Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent, and later (after the company merged with, and became known as, the Comédie-Italienne) at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. The company also premiered several of his later operas at the Théâtre de la Cour at the Palace of Fontainebleau before presenting them at the Bourgogne.[1] L'îsle sonnante was premiered by the company at the residence of Madame de Montesson in Villers-Cotterêts before it was given at the Bourgogne.[2]
List
[edit]| Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les aveux indiscrets | intermède | 1 act | Larabadière, after Jean de La Fontaine | 7 February 1759 | Opéra-Comique (St Germain), Paris |
| Le maître en droit | opéra bouffon | 2 acts | Pierre-René Lemmonier, after Jean de La Fontaine's Le roi Candule, et le maître en droit | 13 February 1760 | Opéra-Comique (St Germain), Paris |
| Le cadi dupé | opéra bouffon | 1 act | Pierre-René Lemmonier, after The Thousand and One Nights, and L Gallet's Le tour double, ou le prêté rendu | 4 February 1761 | Opéra-Comique (St Germain), Paris |
| On ne s'avise jamais de tout | opéra comique mêlé de morceaux de musique | 1 act | Michel-Jean Sedaine, after Jean de La Fontaine | 14 September 1761 | Opéra-Comique (St Laurent), Paris |
| Le roi et le fermier | comédie mêlée de morceaux de musique | 3 acts | Michel-Jean Sedaine, after Robert Dodsley's The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) | 22 November 1762 | Comédie-Italienne (Bourgogne), Paris |
| Le nouveau monde | divertissement | Charles-Simon Favart, after Simon-Joseph Pellegrin | written 1763 | unperformed | |
| Rose et Colas | comedy | 1 act | Michel-Jean Sedaine, after François-Guillaume Fouques-Deshays Desfontaines's Le van | 8 March 1764 | Comédie-Italienne (Bourgogne), Paris |
| Aline, reine de Golconde | ballet héroïque | 3 acts | Michel-Jean Sedaine, after Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers La reine de Golconde | 15 April 1766 | Opéra (Tuileries),[3] Paris |
| Philémon et Baucis | 1 act | Michel-Jean Sedaine | 1766 or 1767 | Bagnolet or L'lle Adam, Paris | |
| L'île sonnante | opéra comique | 3 acts | Collé, after François Rabelais's Le cinquième livre | August 1767 | Comédie-Italienne (Villers-Cotterêts) |
| Le déserteur | drame en prose mêlé de musique | 3 acts | Michel-Jean Sedaine | 6 March 1769 | Comédie-Italienne (Bourgogne), Paris |
| Le rosière de Salency (in collaboration with Blaise, Egidio Duni, Philidor and van Swieten) | ballet pastoral | 3 acts | 25 October 1769 | Comédie-Italienne (Fontainebleau) | |
| Le faucon | opéra comique en prose mêlé d'ariettes | 1 act | Michel-Jean Sedaine, after Jean de La Fontaine | 2 November 1772 | Comédie-Italienne (Fontainebleau) |
| La belle Arsène | comédie-féerie mêlée d'ariettes | 3 acts | Charles-Simon Favart, after Voltaire's La bégueule | 6 November 1773 | Comédie-Italienne (Fontainebleau) |
| La belle Arsène (revised version) | comédie-féerie | 4 acts | Charles-Simon Favart, after Voltaire's La bégueule | 4 August 1775 | Comédie-Italienne (Bourgogne)[4] |
| Félix, ou L'enfant trouvé | comédie | 3 acts | Michel-Jean Sedaine | 10 November 1777[5] | Comédie-Italienne (Fontainebleau) |
| Pagamin de Monègue | opéra lyri-comique | 1 act | Michel-Jean Sedaine | refused by Opéra, 1785 | |
| Robin et Marion | unperformed |
References
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Sources
- Noiray, Michel (1992), "Monsigny [Moncigny, Moncini, Monsigni], Pierre-Alexandre" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie, vol. 3, pp. 438–440. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Pitou, Spire (1983). The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Genesis and Glory, 1671–1715. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313214202.
- Pitou, Spire (1985). The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313243943.
- Wild, Nicole; Charlton, David (2005). Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique Paris: répertoire 1762-1972. Sprimont, Belgium: Editions Mardaga. ISBN 978-2-87009-898-1.