Madame Favart
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Madame Favart is an opéra comique, or operetta, in three acts by Jacques Offenbach.
The French libretto was written by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot.
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[edit] Performance history
It was first staged at the Folies-Dramatiques in Paris on 28 December 1878. The work was very popular in the 19th century, not only in France. An English version opened at the Strand Theatre in London on 12 April 1879 and famously ran for 502 performances.
[edit] Roles
| Premiere | ||
|---|---|---|
| Madame Favart | soprano | Juliette Simon-Girard |
| Charles-Simon Favart, her husband | baritone | |
| Biscotin | bass | |
| Major Cortignac | bass | |
| Marquis de Pontsablé | tenor | |
| Sergent Larose | tenor | |
| Suzanne | soprano | |
| Hector | ||
[edit] Synopsis
The story is set in 18th century France and concerns the celebrated actress Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray (1727–1775), her playwright husband Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792) and the actress-admiring general Maurice de Saxe (1696–1750), who also appears in the verismo opera Adriana Lecouvreur.
[edit] Sources
Madame Favart by Andrew Lamb, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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