FULL Geneviève de Brabant (Erik Satie) Alessandria 2020 Angelica Lapadula
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Geneviève de Brabant
- Composer: Satie Erik
- Libretto: J. P. Contamine de Latour (writing under the pseudonym "Lord Cheminot")
- Venue & Opera Company: Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi, Alessandria, Italy
- Recorded: February 11, 2020
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: Angelica Lapadula
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Luca Valentino
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Geneviève de Brabant is a theatre piece composed around 1900 by Erik Satie. The score was intended as incidental music for a three-act comedy in verse and prose by J. P. Contamine de Latour (writing under the pseudonym “Lord Cheminot”), based on the medieval legend of Genevieve of Brabant. Unproduced at the time, its existence was not discovered until after Satie’s death in 1925.
Neither author left any indication of how the work should be staged. It was premiered as an “opera for marionettes” at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on May 17, 1926. The conductor was Roger Désormière, who arranged the original piano score for orchestra. As performed today, Geneviève de Brabant retains Satie’s music but the narrative is a truncated hodgepodge of Latour’s sung arias and spoken interpolations by others.