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''Briséïs, or Les amants de Corinthe'' () is an operatic 'drame lyrique' by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's ''Die Braut von Korinth''. ==Composition and performance history== It seems likely that Catulle Mendès (who had already provided the libretto for ''Gwendoline'' and words for Chabrier's songs "Chanson de Jeanne" and "Lied"), saw potential for an opera in Ephraïm Mikhaël and Bernard Lazare's ‘dramatic legend’ ''La fiancée de Corinthe'', and suggested the project to Chabrier. Chabrier worked on the opera from May 1888 until 1893 when his ill-health (paralysis in the late stages of syphilis) prevented any further progress. The first act (which lasts around 75 minutes) was in a finished enough state by the end of June 1890 for Chabrier to play it to Mendès – the orchestration was then completed by the end of September of that year. In 1894 Chabrier asked Vincent d'Indy to complete the work, but it was too difficult to piece together the sketches. Due to illness, Chabrier only completed the first act (of the three projected), which was premiered at a Chabrier memorial concert in Paris on 13 January 1897, conducted by Charles Lamoureux. Chabrier’s heirs asked other composers – including Debussy, Enescu and Ravel – to try to complete it. The first staging of act 1 took place at the Neues Königliches Opernhaus in Berlin on 14 January 1899, conducted by Richard Strauss. ''Briséïs'' is highly erotic and seductively scored music, which Strauss may well have remembered when he came to compose ''Salome''.〔Kennedy M. ''Richard Strauss, Master Musicians.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996.〕 The Vichy Festival staged ''Briséïs'' in a programme with ''Béatrice et Bénédict'' in 1954 with Janette Vivalda in the title role, conducted by Paul Bastide.〔René Klopfenstein. Report from France. ''Opera,'' December 1954, page 754.〕 The manuscript is at the Bibliothèque de l'Opéra, Paris. The publication of the score in 1897 included a limited edition with a portrait by Desmoulins, tributes by several friends and composers (Bruneau, Charpentier, Chausson, D'Indy, Lamoureux, Messager and Mottl), as well as poems in Chabrier's memory by de Régnier, Saint-Pol-Roux, van Lerberghe and Viélé-Griffin.〔Poulenc, Francis. ''Emmanuel Chabrier.'' Geneva and Paris, La Palatine, 1961 (In Memoriam).〕 Goldmark's opera ''Die Kriegsgefangene'' (1899) was originally to be called ''Briseis'', although the subject matter is different.〔Loewenberg, p. ??〕 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「Briséïs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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