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Charles VI (opera)

Charles VI is an 1843 French grand opera in five acts with music composed by Fromental Halevy and a libretto by Casimir Delavigne and his brother Germain Delavigne.

Charles VI

Charles VI

French

15 March 1843 (1843-03-15)
Salle Peletier, Paris

The number "Guerre aux tyrans!" ("War on the tyrants!") achieved separate fame as a song of political protest.[1]

Performance history[edit]

The opera was first presented on 15 March 1843 by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier. It continued to be performed there, and in a revised form beginning on 4 October 1847, up to 1848, and was revived again in 1850, receiving a total of 61 performances.[2][3] Beginning on 5 April 1870 it was produced at the Théâtre Lyrique with Rosine Bloch in the role of Odette and was given there a total of 22 times.[4]


Charles VI was also performed in French in Brussels (beginning on 2 October 1845), The Hague (25 April 1846), New Orleans (22 April 1847), Buenos Aires (4 May 1854), Batavia (27 April 1866), Barcelona (29 April 1871), Mexico (19 January 1882), and Marseille (8 April 1901). It was performed in German in Hamburg (13 February 1851) and in Italian in Milan (16 March 1876).[5]


Performances in the 20th century were rare, but the opera was revived at Compiègne in 2005.

June 1, 1843, , Paris — Lucrèce a Poitiers, ou Les écuries d'Augias, tragédie mêlée de vaudevilles by M. Léonard de Chatellerault;

Théâtre du Gymnase

March 16, 1847, , Milan — Odette ou la Démence de Charles VI, ballet by Jules Perrot.

Teatro alla Scala

(1873). Histoire de la musique dramatique en France. Paris: Didot. View at Google Books.

Chouquet, Gustave

; Delavigne, G. (1878). Charles VI. Opéra en cinq actes. Musique de F. Halévy (libretto in French), pp. 221–233 in Chefs-d'oeuvre du théâtre Moderne, volume 1. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères. View at Google Books.

Delavigne, Casimir

Halévy, Fromental (ca. 1858). Charles VI. Opéra en 5 Actes. Paroles de MM. Germain et Casimir Delavigne. Musique de F. Halévy (piano-vocal score). Paris: . File #72489 at IMSLP.

Henry Lemoine

Jordan, Ruth (1994). Fromental Halévy: His Life & Music 1799–1862. London: Kahn & Averill.  978-1-871082-51-7.

ISBN

(1878). Bibliothèque musicale du Théâtre de l'Opéra, volume 2. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles. View at Google Books.

Lajarte, Théodore

Loewenberg, Alfred (1978). Annals of Opera 1597–1940 (third edition, revised). London, John Calder.  978-0-7145-3657-6. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-87471-851-5.

ISBN

Macdonald, Hugh (1992a). "Charles VI" in Sadie 1992, vol. 1, p. 821.

Macdonald, Hugh (1992b). "Halévy, (Jacques-François-)Fromental (-Elie)" in Sadie 1992, vol. 2, pp. 598–600.

Pitou, Spire (1990). The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Growth and Grandeur, 1815–1914. New York: Greenwood Press.  978-0-313-26218-0.

ISBN

Sadie, Stanley, editor (1992). (4 volumes). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

Thomson, Andrew (1995). "Review of Fromental Halevy: His Life and Work, 1799-1862" in The Musical Times, vol. 136, no. 1826 (April 1995), p. 198.  485080680.

OCLC

(1981). Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870. New York: Riverrun Press. ISBN 978-0-7145-3659-0.

Walsh, T. J.

Notes


Sources

Revival at Compiègne