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''Ariane et Barbe-bleue'' (''Ariadne and Bluebeard'') is an opera in three acts by Paul Dukas. The French libretto is adapted (with very few changes) from the symbolist play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck, itself loosely based on the French literary tale ''La Barbe bleue'' by Charles Perrault. Dukas had been impressed by Maeterlinck's play when it was first published in 1899. Maeterlinck had initially reserved the rights to use ''Ariane'' as a libretto for Edvard Grieg. When Grieg abandoned his plans to compose the opera, Maeterlinck offered it to Dukas instead. Dukas worked on the score between 1899 and 1906.〔Halbreich, p. 16.〕〔Holden, pp. 248-249〕 The work has often been compared to Debussy's opera ''Pelléas et Mélisande'' (1902), also based on a Maeterlinck play; Debussy had virtually finished his score by the time Dukas began work on his. The names of Barbe-bleue's five former wives are taken from previous plays by Maeterlinck: Sélysette from ''Aglavaine et Sélysette'' (1896), Alladine from ''Alladine et Palomides'' (1894), Ygraine and Bellangère from ''La mort de Tintagiles'' (1894), and Mélisande from ''Pelléas et Mélisande''. Dukas, who knew Debussy well, actually borrowed three bars from Debussy's opera to accompany the first mention of Mélisande, although the character is minor in Dukas' opera. Ariane takes her name from the legend of Ariadne and the Cretan labyrinth, although she combines the roles of both Ariadne and Theseus, who freed the captive Athenian virgins from the Minotaur just as Ariane liberates—or tries to liberate—the wives from Bluebeard.〔Halbreich, p. 18.〕 It received its first performance at the Opéra Comique in Paris, on 10 May 1907. Performances in the latter half of the twentieth century were rare. ==Performance history== ''Ariane et Barbe-bleue'' premiered at Opéra Comique in Paris on 10 May 1907 with Maeterlinck's partner, Georgette Leblanc, in the title role. It was conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky at the Vienna Volksoper on 2 April 1908. Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern were in the audience and expressed their admiration for the music. Further performances followed in Brussels (1909), New York and Milan (1911), Buenos Aires (1912) and Madrid (1913).〔''Cambridge Companion'', p. 65.〕 The British premiere did not take place until 20 April 1937 (at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London).〔 Oper Frankfurt gave a new production in its 2007–2008 season and Opéra National de Paris took the work to Japan in July 2008, together with only one other full-length opera, on the company's first tour of that country; Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) gave a new production in June 2011, its premiere at the theatre. Five commercial recordings exist, as well as recordings of an orchestral suite, prepared by Arturo Toscanini and premiered in a 1947 broadcast by the NBC Symphony Orchestra.〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000J5UU〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ariane et Barbe-bleue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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