FULL V’lan dans l’œil (Hervé) Paris 1998 Péniche Opéra
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: V’lan dans l’œil or L'œil crevé
- Composer: Hervé aka Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger
- Libretto: Hector Crémieux Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opéra-Comique, Paris, France, Péniche Opéra
- Recorded: December 1998
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Geoffroy Dechaume, Salomé Haller, Anne Barbier, Franck T’Hézan, Edwidge Bourdy, Yves Coudray, Lionel Peintre, Paul-Alexandre Dubois, Aurélia Leguay, Mathieu Lecroard, Anna Holroyd, Loïc Félix
- Conductor: Jean Claude Pennetier, assisté de Roland Pidoux
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Mireille Larroche, assistée d’Alain Patiès
- Stage Designer: Pierre Larroche
- Costume Designer: Michel Ronvaux
- Lighting Designer: Jean Luc Chanonnat
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Péniche Opéra Théâtre
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
L’œil crevé (literally “The pierced eye”, more loosely “It hit me right in the eye”) is an opéra bouffe with libretto and music by Hervé, first produced in Paris on 12 October 1867 at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques
Hervé had written one act operettas for many years, which due to the licensing system in Paris until 1858 was all that was allowed for the theatres where his works were presented. In 1858 this restriction was removed and his first full length opéra bouffe Les chevaliers de la Table Ronde was produced at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in 1866 with great success. This was followed by L’œil crevé at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques in 1867. These works, along with the same composer’s Chilpéric of 1868 and Le petit Faust of 1869, represent burlesque – comic treatment of serious subjects, full of deliberate anachronisms and zany situations – at its most extreme.
Synopsis
Fleur de Noblesse, a young and beautiful girl from a good family, has simultaneously been smitten with a mad passion for carpentry and a mad passion for a young carpenter in the locality, Ernest. An archery contest is arranged in which her hand in marriage is to be the prize awarded to the victor, so Fleur sets to work “fixing” the targets so that Ernest will win. When the contest takes place, it does appear that Ernest has hit the bulls-eye but Alexandrivoire, a roving forester who like Robin Hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor, turns up and challenges the result. When he attempts to shoot the target however Fleur intervenes and diverts the arrow with the result that it pierces her right in the eye. The local gendarme Geromé arrests Alexandrivoire and has him thrown into a dungeon but Dindonette, a peasant girl in love with Alexandrivoire, manages to extract the arrow from Fleur’s eye and, after a lot of mistaken identities, baby-talk and confusion, all ends happily.