L'amant statue

*L'amant statue*
L'amant statue
Opera by Nicolas Dalayrac
	Nicolas Dalayrac
Librettist	Desfontaines-Lavallée
Language	French
Premiere	4 August 1785; Comédie-Italienne, Paris

L'amant statue is an opera in one act by composer Nicolas Dalayrac with a French libretto by Desfontaines-Lavallée. The opera was premiered by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 4 August 1785. It was revived on 30 September 1802 at the Salle Feydeau.^[1]

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role	Voice type^[2]	Premiere cast: 4 August 1785^[3]
Célimène	soprano	Rose Renaud
Rosette	soprano	Marie Desbrosses
Dorval	taille (baritenor)	Louis Michu
Frontin	basse-taille (bass-baritone)	Philippe-Thomas Meunier (also spelled Ménier)^[4]

L'amant statue with conductor Michael Cook and the Orchestre du Festival de Saint-Céré. Cast includes: Elisabeth Duval (Célimène), Jean-Pierre Chevalier (Dorval), Florence Launay (Rosette), and Francis Dudziak (Frontin). Recorded live on August 8, 1985. Released on the Ariane-Scalen label.

Notes

^ Wild & Charlton 2005, pp. 50, 131. Another source states the opera was premiered on that date, 4 August 1785, at the Palace of Fontainebleau in the presence of King Louis XVI of France (L'amant statue von Dalayrac Archived 2008-12-11 at the Wayback Machine). Desfontaines' libretto had previously been performed as an opéra-comique en vaudevilles (that is, without the music of Dalayrac), first at Brunoy on 23 November 1780, and then at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris on 20 February 1781 (Wild & Charlton).
^ According to the printed-score clefs, as reported by Joann Elart, Catalogue des fonds musicaux conservés en Haute-Normandie. Tome I – Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen. Volume 1 – Fonds di Théâtre des Arts (XVIIIe et XIXe siècles), Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 2004, p. 12
^ 1785 libretto; full names from Kutsch & Riemens 2003, unless otherwise stated.
^ First name from David Charlton and Mark Ledbury (eds), Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797): Theatre, Opera and Art, Routledge, 2018, Index, ad nomen (and pp. 130 and 265).

Sources

Karl-Josef Kutsch, Riemens, Leo (2003). Großes Sängerlexikon (fourth edition, in German). Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 9783598115981.
Wild, Nicole; Charlton, David (2005). Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique Paris: répertoire 1762–1972. Sprimont, Belgium: Éditions Mardaga. ISBN 9782870098981.