L'amant Jaloux
L'Amont
Jaloux
Grétry
3–8 December, 2015
City Recital Hall, Sydney
L'Amont Jaloux
First performed 20 November 1778 at Versailles
Music by André Grétry
Libretto by Thomas Hales with the verse passages provided by F. Levasseur.
Venue
City Recital Hall, Sydney
Sung in French
Pinchgut's summer season featured André Grétry's brilliant comic masterpiece, L'Amant jaloux (The Jealous Lover).
This hugely successful opera, heard and admired by Mozart during his sojourn in France, began a new kind of French musical drama. Glorious orchestral colours and wickedly witty ensemble pieces reveal striking musical and dramatic ideas, embracing the daring new ideals of the Enlightenment, while laying bare the innermost thoughts and feelings of the characters in a way that would inspire Mozart’s partnership with his librettist da Ponte. Mistaken identity, mysterious strangers, true love, duels and a happy ending!
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Photos by Prudence Upton
