FULL The Pleasures of the Quarrel (various) Ithaca 2022 Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Marie Marquis, Dominik Belavy, Tyler Duncan

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Querelle des Bouffons aka the Quarrel of the Buffoons  
• Composer: Mondonville, Orlandini, Dauvergne  
• Libretto: Catherine Turocy    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York  
• Recorded: March 27, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Marie Marquis, Dominik Belavy, Tyler Duncan
• Conductor: Michelle Di Russo  
• Orchestra: The Cornell Chamber Orchestra  
• Ballet: The New York Baroque Dance Company  
• Choreographer: Catherine Turocy  
• Stage Director: Catherine Turocy  
• Stage Designer: Jason Simms  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Music at Cornell  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  This unique performance from Cornell University stages the infamous Querelle des Bouffons (the Quarrel of the Buffoons) via three works performed in Paris in 1753: the first is in the mythology-based French style; the second an Italian comedy; and the third an imitation of an Italian intermezzo by a French composer.

  Program
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  1:35 Prelude: From Bailey Hall to the Paris Opera
  11:22 Excerpts from the prologue of Titon et l’Aurore by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville.
  31:43 Interlude: Love (and Opera) Italian Style
  33:13 Excerpts from Il Giocatore (The Gambler) by Giovanni Maria Orlandini and Pietro Auletta
  48:11 Interlude: Vive la différence!
  51:13 Les Troqueurs (The Swappers), one-act opéra bouffon by Antoine Dauvergne, performed in its entirety, including the ballet.

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