Lucile (opera)

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André Grétry

Operas Le Huron (1767) Les mariages samnites (1768) Lucile (1769) Le tableau parlant (1769) Les deux avares(1770) Zémire et Azor (1771) Le jugement de Midas (1778) L'amant jaloux (1778) Aucassin et Nicolette (1779) Andromaque (1780) Colinette à la cour (1782) L'épreuve villageoise (1782) La caravane du Caire (1783) Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784) Pierre le Grand (1790) Guillaume Tell (1791) See also: Operas by Grétry
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Lucile is an opéra comique, described as a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, in one act by the Belgian composer André Grétry, The French text was by Jean-François Marmontel, and the characters in the opera, though not the actual story, were derived from Marmontel's L'école des pères. The melody from "Où peut-on être mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?" was later reused in Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 5, Op.37.

Performance history

It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris on 5 January 1769.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, January 5, 1769 (Conductor: - )
Blaise	bass	Joseph "Giuseppe" Caillot
Dorval	tenor
Dorval Père	bass
Julie	soprano
Lucile	soprano
Timente	tenor

Selected recordings

Lucile, ariettes et quatuor, DUCHESNE Solistes de Liege, Dir. Emmanuel Koch Cat: DD 8026
Lucile, Solistes, Choeurs et Orchestre de l'Opera de Wallonie, Dir. Roger Rossel Cat: MBM 28

References

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 7 July 2008

Lucile by David Charlton, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

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