The gallant Indies
the gallant Indies is certainly the scenic work most known of Jean-Philippe Rameau. It also constitutes the top like the Opéra-ballet, in a prolog and four entered, on a booklet of Louis Fuzelier.
Work was presented in 1735; it is the second composition of Branch for the scene, after the lyric Tragédie Hippolyte and Aricie . It did not comprise whereas three entries, the last having been added only a little later. This structure with variable geometry is allowed by the spirit of the opera ballet, or one does not speak about acts, but about entries, for marking well that the various parts have between them only one analogy set of themes, and do not constitute of anything a followed intrigue.
The kind had been invented by André Campra ( gallant Europe ) and Branch, in spite of the poverty and the improbabilities of the booklet, carries it to its apogee thanks to an admirable music which ensured him of very many representations during the 18th century. Whereas Campra told gallant stories in various European countries, Rameau exploits the same vein with success but research a little more Exotisme in of the very approximate Indies which are in fact in Turkey, in Perse, with the Peru or at the Indians of North America. The thin intrigue of these small dramas is especially used to introduce a “large spectacle” or the sumptuous costumes, the decorations, the machineries, and especially the Danse hold a crucial role. The Indies Galantes symbolize the carefree time, refined, dedicated to the pleasures and the galantery of Louis XV and his court.
This major work of the French lyric repertory was forgotten during more than one century and half. It is in 1925 that the 3rd entry ( Incas of Peru ) was taken again with the Op3era Comique and in 1957 that its integrality was given in scene to the royal opera of the Château of Versailles in the presence of the Queen of England, in official visit in France.
Summary of work
Imposing a Ouverture to the Frenchwoman begins work, in the tradition Lully co. (solemn beginning in pointed notes, faster interlude running away, return to the initial melody).
Prolog
Characters: Hébé, Bellone, the Love- Hébé, goddess of youth exhorts troops of youth French, Italian, Spanish and Polish to enjoy the pleasures of the Love. Gracious dances and plays. But Bellone, the goddess of the war, appears and enlists young people, promising the glory of the engagements to them. Hébé calls with Cupid itself of it so that it takes advantage of its rights. To compensate for the departure of young Europeans, this one thus will launch its feature “on the most distant shores”, those of the Indies of shoddy goods or the acts following will lead us. The duet of the Love and Hébé:
- “Cross more the vast seas,
- Volez, steal Amours, fly, fly! ”
- is taken again by the final chorus which closes the prolog.
- “Cross more the vast seas,
1e entry: the Turk generous
Characters: Osman, Emilie, Valère- the “Indies” of the first entry are located among Turks, some share at the seaside. Emilie is a Christian woman, made captive by pirates and become the slave of the pasha Osman, who in is in love. But Emilie pushes back her advances: its heart is in Valère, his/her lover who seeks it since they were separate. Whereas it is in the gardens of Osman, close to the shore, a violent storm occurs, which throws to ground a ship and its sailors. Those are captured and reduced in slavery. Among them: Valère, which has suddenly met Emilie. The joy of the meeting again of the two lovers is obscured by the tragedy of the situation. Osman appears, all is to be feared. But against any waiting, this last returns in Valère its beloved and to both freedom gives them: it has just recognized in Valère that which, in the past, had had it like slave and had freed it; both are spread in praises on the virtues of the other. Dances and rejoicings conclude this first act.
2nd entry: the Flowers, celebrates Persian
Characters: Tacmas, Ali, Zaire, Fatime
3rd entry: Incas of Peru
Characters: Huascar, Phani, Gift Carlos- Us here at the INCA S, whose large priest of the Sun, Huascar, covets in secrecy the Phani princess. But this one is the amante of a Spanish officer, Don Carlos. She fears for him and decides it to move away because its people must gather for the great festival of the Sun. Huascar occurs, which tries to make accept Phani that the gods order that she marries it. This one is not easily deceived, and Huascar lets escape its jealousy against the winners of Incas, but the preparations of the festival stop their maintenance. The festival of the sun is the culminating point of the entry, and all the opera - this as well on the musical level as on the level of the dramatic expression.
- the first invocation of Huascar is tinted nostalgia of last times
- “Sun, one destroyed your superb asylums,
- then it translates the gratitude of faithful towards the dispenser star of benefits, verses taken again in chorus just like the admirable air Clair torch of the world . A third air of the large priest calls the sun has to accept the competition of the love in the concerns of its admirers. Many dances intersect all this scene, but here is that the volcano awakes throwing terror on the assembly.
- the first invocation of Huascar is tinted nostalgia of last times
4th entry: the Savages
Characters: Adario, Damon, Gift Alvaro, Zimain progress
The opera ballet finishes imposing a final Chaconne.
External bonds
- the complete booklet of the '' the gallant Indies ''
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