Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse
Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (Don Quixote at the Duchess) is a "comic ballet" (comédie lyrique) by the French baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Although it is described as a ballet, it is sung throughout with a libretto by Charles Simon Favart.
Performance history
It was first performed on 12 February 1743 at the Académie Royale de Musique et de Dance in Paris.
Roles
- Don Quichotte, haute-contre Jean-Antoine Bérard
- Sancho Pança, taille (baritenor) Louis-Antoine Cuvilliers
- Altisidore, soprano Marie Fel
- Peasant girl, soprano Mlle Bourbonnois
- Woman, soprano
- Duke, bass
- Merlin, basse-taille (bass-baritone) Person
- Montésinos, basse-taille Albert
- Japanese man, basse-taille Person
- Japanese woman, soprano Marie Fel
- Enchanted lovers, sopranos Mlles Clairon and Gondré
- Ballerinas, Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo and Mimi Dallemand
- Male dancers, David Dumoulin, Louis Dupré and Jean-Barthélemy Lany
Synopsis
The opera is based upon an episode in the Cervantes novel Don Quixote, in which a Duke and Duchess amuse themselves by creating an elaborate ruse to fool the title character.
Discography
- Don Quichotte chez la la Duchesse (Comic Ballet in Three Acts), by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Hervé Niquet (conductor) and the ensemble Le Concert Spirituel; Naxos 8.553647 (1996).
- Matthias Maute and the Ensemble Caprice; Atma Classique 5646702 (2024)[1]
See also
References
- Pitou, Spire, The Paris Opéra. An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers – Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815, Greenwood Press, Westport/London, 1985 (article: "Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse", p. 168), ISBN 0-313-24394-8
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- Le magazine de l'opéra baroque, accessed 2 April 2010
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Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605/1615)
imaginary characters,
and animals
- The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694 play)
- Double Falsehood (1727 play)
musical
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- Don Quixote (1898 opera)
- Don Quichotte (1910 opera)
- Man of La Mancha (1964 musical, "The Impossible Dream" song)
- Don Quixote (Richard Strauss, 1898)
- Don Quixote (Ludwig Minkus, 1869)
- Don Quixote (1903)
- Incident from Don Quixote (1908)
- Don Quixote (1923)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- Don Quixote (1947)
- Don Quixote (1955–1969, unfinished)
- Don Quixote (1957)
- Dulcinea (1963)
- Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968)
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo (1973)
- Don Quixote (2000)
- Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Don Quixote, Knight Errant (2002)
- Honor de cavalleria (2006)
- Donkey Xote (2007)
- Don Quixote (2010)
- Don Quixote (2015)
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
- He Dreams of Giants (2019)
- I, Don Quixote (1959 teleplay)
- Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha (1980 series)
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1989 series)
- El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes (1992 series)
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- Don Quixote (1955 sketch)
- Don Quixote (1976 sculpture)
- Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
- Amadís de Gaula
- List of works influenced by Don Quixote
- Quixotism
- The History of Cardenio
- "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)
- "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (1939 short story)
- Monsignor Quixote (1982 novel)
- Super Don Quix-ote (1984 video game)
- ^ Robins, Brian. Review of Don Quichotte chez la la Duchesse. Opera, September 2024, Vol.75 No.9, p1267.