10.07.2025 18:00 - 23:00
l'Abeille, Rue de la Vouagère 2, 1908 Riddes
Concert | Comic opera in one act
It all began with a competition launched by Jacques Offenbach,
to crown the composition of a comic opera, based on a libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy, a farce led by the hilarious figure of a charlatan chef: Le Docteur Miracle. The story? Young Laurette is in love with Captain Silvio, but her father, the Podestà of Padua, and her stepmother, Véronique, don't see it that way. Disguises and deceptions ensue. In the end, theater and love joyfully triumph over the father's tyranny, playing on his hypochondriac anxieties.
Among 78 competitors, Charles Lecocq and Georges Bizet, then aged 18, tied for first place. First performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in 1857, Bizet's version disappeared for a century, only to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the Paris Conservatoire. It is still too rarely performed, so great is the pleasure it offers its audience, and its gaiety contagious. The light-hearted lyrics are set to music with hilarious imitations of various styles, and a real treat: the omelette quartet with parody sauce.
Pierre Lebon humorously directs this delightful one-act pocket operetta, adding an actor to the four characters who enthusiastically serve up this little gem of freshness and verve. A nod to Bizet and his Carmen, which will close the season, his early work mirroring his universal masterpiece.
Since 2010, La Route Lyrique has pursued a policy - unique in French-speaking Switzerland - of professional integration for singers and instrumentalists graduating from the HEMU and HEM-GE.
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) | Libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy | Co-production Opéra de Lausanne - Opéra de Tours - Opéra de Rouen Normandie - Théâtre du Châtelet - Bru Zane France
For the first time at the Opéra de Lausanne
Sung in French (without surtitles)
First performance at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, April 9, 1857
Hugh MacDonald Editions © Fishergate Music
Laurette: Naïma Wanshe
Véronique: Carine Séchaye
Captain Silvio: Jean Miannay
Podestat de Padoue: Rémi Ortega
Doctor Miracle's assistant: Pierre Lebon
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Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
to crown the composition of a comic opera, based on a libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy, a farce led by the hilarious figure of a charlatan chef: Le Docteur Miracle. The story? Young Laurette is in love with Captain Silvio, but her father, the Podestà of Padua, and her stepmother, Véronique, don't see it that way. Disguises and deceptions ensue. In the end, theater and love joyfully triumph over the father's tyranny, playing on his hypochondriac anxieties.
Among 78 competitors, Charles Lecocq and Georges Bizet, then aged 18, tied for first place. First performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in 1857, Bizet's version disappeared for a century, only to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the Paris Conservatoire. It is still too rarely performed, so great is the pleasure it offers its audience, and its gaiety contagious. The light-hearted lyrics are set to music with hilarious imitations of various styles, and a real treat: the omelette quartet with parody sauce.
Pierre Lebon humorously directs this delightful one-act pocket operetta, adding an actor to the four characters who enthusiastically serve up this little gem of freshness and verve. A nod to Bizet and his Carmen, which will close the season, his early work mirroring his universal masterpiece.
Since 2010, La Route Lyrique has pursued a policy - unique in French-speaking Switzerland - of professional integration for singers and instrumentalists graduating from the HEMU and HEM-GE.
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) | Libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy | Co-production Opéra de Lausanne - Opéra de Tours - Opéra de Rouen Normandie - Théâtre du Châtelet - Bru Zane France
For the first time at the Opéra de Lausanne
Sung in French (without surtitles)
First performance at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, April 9, 1857
Hugh MacDonald Editions © Fishergate Music
Laurette: Naïma Wanshe
Véronique: Carine Séchaye
Captain Silvio: Jean Miannay
Podestat de Padoue: Rémi Ortega
Doctor Miracle's assistant: Pierre Lebon
At
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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