Le tableau parlant

André Grétry

Operas Le Huron (1767) Les mariages samnites (1768) Lucile (1769) Le tableau parlant (1769) Les deux avares(1770) Zémire et Azor (1771) Le jugement de Midas (1778) L'amant jaloux (1778) Aucassin et Nicolette (1779) Andromaque (1780) Colinette à la cour (1782) La caravane du Caire (1783) L'épreuve villageoise (1784) Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784) Pierre le Grand (1790) Guillaume Tell (1791) See also: Operas by Grétry

Le tableau parlant (The Talking Picture) is an opéra comique, described as a comédie-parade, in one act by André Grétry, The French text was by Louis Anseaume.

Performance history

It was first performed on 20 September 1769 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 20 September 1769 (Conductor: - )
Isabelle	soprano	Marie-Jeanne Trial
Léandre	tenor	Antoine Trial
Cassandre	tenor	Jean-Louis Laruette
Pierrot	tenor	Jean-Baptiste Guignard
Columbine	soprano	Marie-Thérèse Laruette-Villette

Synopsis

In the absence of Isabelle's lover Léandre, Cassandre persuades Isabelle to marry him instead. Cassandre leaves and in the meantime Léandre returns and Isabelle changes her mind. She asks Cassandre's portrait for his agreement to the changed state of affairs, only to find that Cassandre himself is concealed behind the picture.

Sources

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 6 November 2008
Tableau parlant, Le by Michael Fend, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

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