Adèle de Ponthieu is a French-language opera by the composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 27 October 1781, to inaugurate the new venue of the theatre near the Saint-Martin gate. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-Paul-André Razins de Saint-Marc, had been previously set by the composers Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton in 1772.
Roles CastVoice typePremiere, 27 October 17811782 libretto: Adele de Ponthieu, Tragédie-lyrique en trois actes, Remise en Musique par M. Piccini, Paris, Michel, 1782 (copy at Warwick Digital Library)Guillaume III, Count of Ponthieubasse-taille (bass-baritone)Henri LarrivéeAdèle, the Count's daughtersopranoMarie-Joséphine LaguerreAlphonse of Est, an Italian knightbass-baritoneMoreauRaimond de Mayenne, a relative of the Count and a humble squirehaute-contreJoseph LegrosGérard d'Alsace, an old Knight, judge of the campbass-baritoneAuguste-Athanase (Augustin) ChéronEnguerrand de Couci, another old Knight, judge of the camphaute-contreCavalies (or Cavalier)Renaud de Sarcus, another old Knight, judge of the campbaritoneLouis-Claude-Armand Chardin ("Chardiny")A lady of the court/a troubadoursopranoAnne-Marie Jeanne Gavaudan, l'ainée (the Elder)Ladies of the courtsopranosGertrude Girardin, Thaunat, Rosalie, AncéChorus: The court of the Count, knights, squires, pages, king of arms, heralds, officers of the joust, fiddlers, jongleurs, youths and girls, people
References
Further reading Dictionnaire des Opéras by Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse, p. 6 (in French)