The French revolution (musical comedy)

See also: the French revolution

the French revolution is a “Opéra-rock French” whose first in 1973 with the palate of Sports of Paris took place.

Synopsis

With the French revolution for backdrop, history of the impossible loves between a son of tradesmen, Charles Gauthier, become appointed State third, and a girl belonging to the nobility, Isabelle de Montmorency, constraint to flee with the royal family…

There were two versions: that of origin (double album), and that, more packed, presented a few years later to the theater Mogador (box of 3 albums).

Data sheet

Distribution

First edition

The disc was published in double album vinyl in 1973 pennies reference LDM 30166 to the Vogue discs. The album contains a booklet of sixteen pages containing a cartoon offering the words on twelve pages.

Disc 1, face 1

  1. Opening
  2. General states:
    1. the king
    2. the nobility
    3. the clergy
    4. the third State
  3. Charles Gauthier
  4. In Versailles (July 14th, 1789)
  5. Return of the Bastille: French, French; It is called Charles Gauthier

Disc 2, face 2

  1. With bottom all the privileges
  2. Declaration of the human rights and the citizen
  3. That will go, that will go!
  4. Four seasons for a love
  5. Oath of Talleyrand; federation

celebrates Disc 2, face 3

  1. Newspaper seller; the fatherland is in danger (Danton)
  2. the exile
  3. Valmy (general Kellermann); proclamation of the Republic
  4. It is beautiful linen my general (Mrs Sans-Gêne and the Bonaparte general)
  5. the lawsuit of Louis XVI: indictment (Fouquier-Tinville)
  6. Louis XVI (execution)

Disc 1, face 4

  1. Chouans, ahead!
  2. terror is in us
  3. the horrible assassination of the Marat citizen by perfidious the Charlotte Corday
  4. Fouquier-Tinville
  5. In the small hour (Marie-Antoinette)
  6. Robespierre: that I am wrong or that I am right
  7. the supreme festival Être
  8. the prison
  9. Révolution (final)

The disc was republished several times thereafter, including once in 1989 at the time of the bicentenary of the French revolution.

2nd edition

  • the passage devoted to the assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday was completely rewritten. Of light interlude in the first version, it becomes in the second a passage of opera to three votes between Charlotte, Marat (which lengthily sing the dagger planted in full heart) and the maidservant of this last.
  • a new scene was added: a dialog of confrontation between Charles Gauthier and Robespierre, whose each worms is a counterpart of a character.

External bond

  • the French revolution, nonofficial site

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