L'ambassadrice

Daniel Auber

Operas Le maçon (1825) La muette de Portici (1828) Fra Diavolo (1830) Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué (1833) Le cheval de bronze (1835) L'ambassadrice (1836) Le domino noir (1837) Le lac des fées (1839) Les diamants de la couronne (1841) La part du diable (1843) Haydée, ou Le Secret (1847) L'enfant prodigue (1850) Manon Lescaut (1856) La circassienne (1861) Le premier jour de bonheur (1868) See also: Operas by Auber

L'ambassadrice is an opera or opéra comique in 3 acts by composer Daniel Auber. The work's French language libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. The opera's world premiere was staged by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris on 21 December 1836.^[1] It was revived in Paris on 4 January 2013 ^[2] by the opera company Les Frivolités Parisiennes at the initiative of two research fellows who specialized in nineteenth-century historically informed performance, Pierre Girod (vocal coach) and Charlotte Loriot (stage director).

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast,^[3] 21 December 1836 (Conductor:)	Revival Cast (Conductor: Mathieu Romano)^[4]
Duke of Valberg	tenor	Théodore-Étienne-François Moreau-Sainti	Christophe Crapez
Countess Augusta of Fierschemberg	soprano	Monsel	Dorothée Thivet
Fortunatus	bass	Roy	Guillaume Paire
Madame Barneck	mezzo-soprano	Marie-Julie Halligner	Laure Ilef
Henriette	soprano	Laure Cinti-Damoreau	Magali Léger
Charlotte	soprano	Jenny Colon	Estelle Lefort
Benedict	tenor	Joseph-Antoine-Charles Couderc	Jean-François Novelli