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FULL Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit (Offenbach) Bosmie-l’Aiguille 2022 Charlotte Bonnet, Alfred Bironien, Jeremy Florent, Charles Mesrine
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit
- Composer: Offenbach Jacques
- Libretto: Charles Nuitter, Étienne Tréfeu
- Venue & Opera Company: Parc du chateau du Boucheron, Bosmie-l'Aiguille, France, Follembuche
- Recorded: August 23, 2022
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Charlotte Bonnet, Alfred Bironien, Jeremy Florent, Charles Mesrine
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Jacqueline Bensimhon
- Stage Director: Maxime Caille
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: La Follembuche
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, frsubs, gensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Concerning the story and the other characters, here is a little explanation to enlighten you on the work: Jeanne is a sensitive young woman, a miller by trade and in love with Savinien (Audrey Hostein). Our couple would like to get married but Jeanne will not be able to stay at the mill until she has settled the estate of her uncle who stipulated in his will that she should marry the highest bidder.
Two rough-hewn peasants enter: Father Cabochon (Jean-Marc Choisy) and his son Nicolas (Cyril Fargues) come to buy the mill. They find no one there. Nicolas would like to marry Tapotte, a local girl, but Cabochon, his father, has decided otherwise: he will be a miller, period!
Nicolas, who is 24, is convinced that he is a minor because according to his father, “The years when the apples have not yielded do not count towards the majority”. He must therefore blindly obey this father to whom he owes respect, even if this Jeanne he is promised cries all the time and is much less cheerful than Tapotte.
The rest of the Cabochon adventure is very funny: Jeanne will pretend to be Jean, her younger brother who breaks everything in the mill, Jean will persuade Nicolas that he is an adult and turn him against his father, Cabochon will disguise himself as a woman to make Rabajou, another potential buyer, who is none other than Savinien, believe that Jeanne is really not the woman one can dream of…
In the end, the story will end in bags of flour and coal with kicks and sticks. At the end it will be the happiness of youth with two planned weddings.
Quoted from Opera de Barie