FULL Tromb-al-ca-zar (Offenbach) Puybarban 2023 Opéra de Barie

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Tromb-al-ca-zar, ou Les criminels dramatiques  
• Composer: Offenbach Jacques  
• Libretto: Charles-Désiré Dupeuty and Ernest Bourget    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Puybarban, France  
• Recorded: August 11, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Cyril Fargues, Christian Lara, Magali Klippfel, Michel Ballan
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Arnaud Oreb, PIANO  
• Stage Director: Cyril Fargues  
• Costume Designer: Fabienne Choisy  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Jean-marc Choisy  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: yessubs, frsubs, gensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Tromb-al-ca-zar, ou Les criminels dramatiques is a bouffonnerie musicale in one act of 1856 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Charles-Désiré Dupeuty and Ernest Bourget. With its dialogue containing plays on words and stage business from contemporary Parisian dramas and operas, it is described by Kracauer as satirizing the romantic bandits of grand opera.

  Tromb-al-ca-zar was premiered in the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul in Paris, preceded by two cantatas by Offenbach, Le Berceau and La Paix du monde. Successful numbers such as the bolero for Hortense Schneider and the song about Bayonne ham, made the work popular along with the in-jokes, despite the thin plot; it was revived at the Bouffes-Parisiens for several years afterwards.

  As well as “extravagant parodies both of specific more serious musical works”, the work pokes fun at the brigand element in romantic opera generally.

  After opening at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Schneider made such an impression on Prince Jérôme Bonaparte, cousin of the emperor, that the company was summoned to give a command performance of the piece at his home.Tromb-al-ca-zar was performed in Brussels in September 1858 and in Vienna in March 1862, and mounted in London in English in 1870

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