Chabrier: L’Étoile

Description

• Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
• Editor: Hugh Macdonald
• Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Voice
• Originally for: Opera
• Work: L’étoile (1877)
• Binding: Paperback
• Work Languages: French, German
• ISMN: 9790006537853
• Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
• Pages: 262
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

With “L’Étoile”, Chabrier composed a light-hearted opera which has increasingly enjoyed revivals in recent years. The plot is introduced by King Ouf I who offers his subjects an execution every year on his birthday. Unfortunately the problem now arises that no crime has recently been committed which might serve as a reason for an execution. Finally, he finds a would-be victim in the young Lazuli. However, according to predictions by the astrologer Siroco, Lazuli’s fate is closely linked to the king’s own life. The comic opera is further bolstered by a story of mistaken identities which involves a great deal of diplomacy, a love story and a large number of refined, yet catchy melodies.

Chabrier was a master of the sensitive and complicated art of musical comedy, a field where he can be compared in equal measure to Offenbach, Rossini and Mozart.