FULL Le Sicilien ou L’Amour peintre Comédie-ballet de Molière et Lully Marseille 2022 Les Malins Plaisirs
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Le Sicilien ou L'Amour peintre
- Composer: Lully Jean-Baptiste
- Libretto: Moliére Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Odéon, Théâtre du Gymnase, Hors les Murs, Marseille, France
- Recorded: 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Francois Heraud, Francois Joron, Clement Debieuvre
- Conductor: Hervé Niquet, Lucile Tessier
- Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel
- Ballet: Compagnie de Danse L'Eventail
- Choreographer: Marie-Geniève Masset
- Stage Director: Vincent Tacernier
- Stage Designer: Claire Niquet
- Costume Designer: Erick Plaza-Cochet
- Lighting Designer: Carlos Perez
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Les Malins Plaisirs
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, frsubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Sicilian or Love the Painter is a comedy by Molière in one act, with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully , and a libretto by Molière.
This piece, a precursor of the style called opéra-comique , mixes song , dance and comedy . Jean Baptiste Lully is said to have produced here his “best musical score a happy balance between the alternation of musical interludes, spoken, sung and vocal ensembles” .
The first performance of this work was given onFebruary 20, 1667in Saint-Germain-en-Laye .
During the revivals of the play at the Comédie Française on June 9, 1679, it was Marc-Antoine Charpentier who composed the music, on March 10, 1780, the music was by Antoine Dauvergne .
Camille Saint-Saëns composed incidental music for the recreation onMay 30, 1892at the French Theatre in Paris.
The Comédie-Française , accompanied by the ensemble Les Arts Florissants , performed it again with music composed by Jean Baptiste Lully , in 2005 and 2006
The film Death on the Nile ( 1978 ) ends with a quote from Scene VI by Hercule Poirot : ” The great ambition of women is to inspire love . ”
Argument
Adraste, a French gentleman, sets up a scheme to kidnap Isidore, a young Greek slave, from Dom Pèdre, who plans to marry her after freeing her. He is helped in this by a servant, Hali, and a young woman, Climène.
Quoted from Wikipedia