Le lac des fées (The Fairy Lake) is a grand opera in five acts composed by Daniel Auber to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville (the pen name of Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier). The story is set in the Harz Mountains and based on a German ballad. The opera was premiered by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 1 April 1839.
Roles RoleScribe libretto from Œuvres complètes, 1841.Voice typeVocal score at IMSLP.Premiere Cast,1839 libretto; Tamvaco 2000, pp. 869–870. 1 April 1839(Conductor: )Zéila, young fairysoprano Maria Delorès NauAlbert, studenttenorGilbert DuprezMarguerite, innkeepersopranoRosine StoltzRodolphe de Cronembourg, seigneur châtelainbassNicolas LevasseurIssachar, Jewish merchanttenorPierre François WartelFritz, student, companion of AlbertbassFerdinand PrévôtConrad, student, companion of AlberttenorAlexis DupontPickler, crookbass MolinierEdda, young fairysopranoÉlian BarthélemyA young shepherdsopranoÉlian Barthélemy
References Notes
Sources Charlton, David, The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp 184–186. Chorley, Henry Fothergill, Modern German Music: Recollections and Criticisms, Smith, Elder, 1854, pp. 246–247. Clément, Félix and Larousse, Pierre, "Lac des fées (Le)", Dictionnaire lyrique ou Histoire des opéras, Slatkine, 1999, p. 392 (in French). Tamvaco, Jean-Louis (2000). Les Cancans de l'Opéra. Chroniques de l'Académie Royale de Musique et du théâtre, à Paris sous les deux restorations (2 volumes, in French). Paris: CNRS Editions. .
External links
1839 libretto at Gallica Complete libretto in the original French from Œuvres complètes de M. Eugène Scribe (Volume 2), Furne, 1841, pp. 123–146.