The Vestal

the Vestal is a opera in three acts of Gaspare Spontini (1774 - 1851), on a booklet of Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy, created with Paris on December 15th 1807.

History

Installed in Paris in 1803, Gaspare Spontini, after having given three light operas to the Theater Feydeau, sought a Roman subject for a grand opera which would agree to the spirit of the hour, with the new synthesis between monarchy and republic, Ancien mode and Révolution, that sought to carry out. Etienne de Jouy proposed to the booklet of the Vestal to him who had already been refused by Etienne Nicolas Méhul and François-Adrien Boïeldieu. Spontini saw the party which it could draw and accepted it.

As indicates it of Jouy in its foreword, the subject of the Vestal is drawn from texts of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. It is also inspired by the tragedy Éricie or the Vestal by Jean-Gaspard Dubois Fontanelle. The subject is of a great dramatic intensity, but authorizes the deployment of a vast scenic liturgy, and the Roman references, with eagles, sceptres, soldiers and triumphal steps, agree with the imperial symbolic system to the price of some anachronisms.

When the Vestal was given to the Opera on Tuesday, December 15 1807 the work appeared to incarnate in an almost miraculous way the spirit of the Empire and created sensation at once. Been useful by a brilliant distribution, including in particular Mrs Branchu in Julia, the opera had nearly one hundred representations of at a stretch. The Institute of France declared it better lyric work of the decade.

Argument

Characters

  • Licinius, Roman general
  • Cinna, chief of legion
  • Sovereign pontiff
  • the chief of the haruspices
  • a consul
  • Julia, young vestal ( Soprano )
  • Large the Vestal

See too

External bonds

  • Catherine Scholler, '' the Vestal between lyric tragedy and grand opera '', on Forum Operated

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