Le cadi dupé
Template:Short description Template:Italic title 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,[2] Vienna, Burgtheater, December 8, 1761 (Conductor: - ) |
|---|---|---|
| Cadi, the judge | basse-taille | Vincent Hédoux |
| Fatime, his wife | soprano | Mme Hédoux |
| Zelmire | soprano | Mme Guérin |
| Nouradin | taille | M. Darcis |
| Omar, a dyer | basse-taille | Jean Baptist Rousselois |
| Ali, Omar's daughter | taille (travesti) | Gabriel Soullé |
| An Aga, or Lieutenant of the Cadi | spoken role[3] | Antoine Durval |
Synopsis
The Cadi has been flirting with other women and neglecting his wife, Fatima. The mischievous Zelmire, who is in love with Nuradin, tricks the Cadi in order to teach him a lesson. She pretends to be Omar's daughter, Ali, who is considered less than desirable. The duped Cadi plans to divorce Fatima in order to marry the pretending Zelmire, but the truth is eventually revealed.
References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Original libretto: Le Cadi dupé, Opera-comique en un acte mêlé d'Ariettes, Vienne, Ghelen, 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, Template:ISBN
External links
Template:Christoph Willibald Gluck
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ 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, Template:ISMN), the opera is set for: 2 soprano voice solos, 2 tenor voice solos, 2 baritone voice solos, speaker and orchestra. According to Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"., also a spoken role.