Le cadi dupé
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Le cadi dupé (The Duped Qadi, or The Duped Judge) is an opéra comique in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a French-language libretto by Pierre-René Lemonnier. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 8 December 1761. The libretto had already been set by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny in an opera that had premiered on 4 February of the same year at the Paris Foire St-Germain.
The music belongs to the Turkish-influenced fashion of the period and features janissary music, represented by piccolo, drums, and cymbals.
Roles
| Role | Voice type[1] | Premiere Cast, November or December, 1761 (Conductor: - ) |
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| Cadi, the judge | bass-baritone | |
| Fatime, his wife | soprano | |
| Zelmire | soprano | |
| Nouradin | haute-contre | |
| Omar, a dyer | bass-baritone | |
| Ali, Omar's daughter | tenor (travesti) | |
| An Aga, or Lieutenant of the Cadi | spoken role?[2] | |
Synopsis
The story involves a judge who wants to divorce his wife, Fatime, in order to marry the beautiful Zelmire, who is in love with Nouradin.
References
- Notes
- ↑ Brown; Alfred Wotquenne, Catalogue Thématique des Œuvres de Chr. W. v. Gluck, Leipzig/Bruxelles/London/New York, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904, p. 202 (copy at Internet Archive)
- ↑ The role is not listed by Wotquenne (cf. above) and, according to the complete score edited by Daniela Philippi (Christoph Willibald Gluck, Le Cadi dupé. Opéra-comique in einem Akt (Gluck. Sämtliche Werke. Serie IV, Band 6), Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1999, ISMN 979-0006495528), the opera is set for: 2 soprano voice solos, 2 tenor voice solos, 2 baritone voice solos, speaker and orchestra.
- Bibliography
- Original Paris libretto: Le Cadi dupé, Opera-comique en un acte par l'Auteur du Maître en Droit, Répresenté pour la premiere fois sur le Théâtre de l'Opera-Comique de la Foire S. Germain, le 4 Fevrier 1761, Paris, Duchesne, 1761 (a copy at books-google)
- Bruce Alan Brown, Cadi dupé, Le, in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Grove (Oxford University Press), New York, 1997, I, p. 675, ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2
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