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Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu (The Chapelmaster, or The Unexpected Supper) is an opéra comique in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer. The French libretto, by Sophie Gay, is based on Le souper imprévu, ou Le chanoine de Milan by Alexandre Duval (1796).
Le maître de chapelle | |
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Opéra comique by Ferdinando Paer | |
Translation | The Chapelmaster |
Librettist | Sophie Gay |
Language | French |
Based on | Alexandre Duval's Le souper imprévu, ou Le chanoine de Milan |
Premiere |
Le maître de chapelle was premiered by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris on 29 March 1821 with the famous baritone Jean-Blaise Martin as Barnabé. By 1900 the work had been performed by the Opéra-Comique over 430 times.[1] It was given at the Royal Opera in London on 13 June 1845, and at the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans on 21 November 1848.
It became Paer's most popular work, albeit usually performed in an abridged version of only the first act.
Cast | Voice type | Premiere cast, 29 March 1821 |
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Barnabé | baritone | Jean-Blaise Martin |
Gertrude, Barnabé's French chef | soprano | Marie-Julie Halligner ('Mme Boulanger') |
Benetto, Barnabé's nephew | tenor | Louis Féréol |
Coelénie, Barnabé's pupil | soprano | Antoinette-Eugénie Rigaut |
Firmin, Captain of Hussars | tenor | |
Sans Quartier, a hussar | bass | |
1797, near Milan. The chapelmaster Barnabé has composed an opera entitled Cléopâtre which he hopes will be staged in Milan, however he is worried that someone in the invading French army will take it away from him.
Paer: Le maître de chapelle - ORTF Chamber Orchestra
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