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''Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro'' (''The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis'') is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts,〔Janet Johnson: ''A Lost Masterpiece Recovered'', p.37-38 of the liner notes to the 1984 DG recording.〕 by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on ''Corinne, ou L'Italie'' by Mme de Staël. Rossini's last opera in the Italian language (all of his later works were in French) premiered under the title ''Le voyage à Reims, ou l'Hôtel du Lys-d'Or''. It was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Reims in 1825 and has been acclaimed as one of Rossini's finest compositions. A demanding work, it requires 14 soloists (three sopranos, one contralto, two tenors, four baritones, and four basses). At its premiere, it was sung by the greatest voices of the day. Since the opera was written for a specific occasion, with a plot about European aristocrats, officers - and one poetess - en route to join in the French coronation festivities that the opera itself was composed for, Rossini never intended it to have a life beyond a few performances in Paris. He later re-used about half of the music in ''Le comte Ory''. ''Il viaggio a Reims'' does not have an overture.〔 Roberto Maietta, ''Per un catalogo del “Fondo Giuseppe Piccioli”: inquadramento delle opere e catalogo delle edizioni'', Thesis for the triennial degree in musicology, University of Cremona, Faculty of Musicology, academic year 2009-2010: ''Catalogo delle opere edite del “Fondo Giuseppe Piccioli”'', p. 22, note 5 (published in the (online Library of the Faculty of Musicology of the University of Pavia )). Maietta's declared source is the preface (''Prefazione'') to the critical edition of the opera, edited by Janet J. Johnson: ''Il viaggio a Reims, ossia, L'albergo del Giglio d'oro, dramma giocoso in un atto di Luigi Balocchi, musica di Gioachino Rossini'', Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini, 1999, I, p. xxxv〕 Its so-called overture, derived from a set of dances in ''Le siège de Corinthe'' (1826), one of which Rossini had reworked from the dances in the finale to ''Il viaggio a Reims'',〔 is a twentieth-century invention or an erroneous attribution. It was published in Milan, in 1938, in a revision by Giuseppe Piccioli,〔''Il viaggio a Reims. Sinfonia / Gioacchino Rossini'', revisione di Giuseppe Piccioli — Partitura — Milan : Carisch, 1938〕 which was first performed in the Teatro alla Scala, on 5 November 1938, conducted by Richard Strauss.〔 It was later also recorded repeatedly as the alleged overture of ''Il viaggio a Reims'', until it was finally possible to reconstruct the original score of the opera. The attributed overture remains one of Rossini's most recorded works, infusing a grand and elegant style with heavy orchestral power. ==Performance history== ''Il viaggio a Reims'' was first performed at the Théâtre Italien, Paris, on 19 June 1825, with Giuditta Pasta as Corinna. There were only four original performances. The different parts of the manuscript, assumed lost, were re-found and re-assembled in the 1970s by the musicologist Janet Johnson, with the help of Philip Gossett. The first performance after the reconstruction was given at the Rossini Opera Festival on 18 August 1984. It was conducted by Claudio Abbado and directed by Luca Ronconi. The cast included Francisco Araiza, Lella Cuberli, Enzo Dara, Cecilia Gasdia, Eduardo Gimenez, William Matteuzzi, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondi, Samuel Ramey, Katia Ricciarelli, and Lucia Valentini Terrani. Other performances have followed. The American premiere was given on 14 June 1986 by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis at the Loretto-Hilton Theater in St. Louis, Missouri, directed by Colin Graham and conducted by Richard Buckley. In 1992, the Royal Opera, London gave several performances: Carlo Rizzi conducted, and the cast included Montserrat Caballe, Renée Fleming, Sylvia McNair, John Aler and Andrew Shore. In Helsinki, on 9 January 2003, the opera was directed by Dario Fo and conducted by Pietro Rizzo. In November 2005 there was another production in Monte Carlo, with a cast including June Anderson, Raùl Gimenez, Rockwell Blake, and Ruggero Raimondi. The Wiener Staatsoper produced the opera in its Rossini Festival conducted by Claudio Abbado, with Monserrat Caballé and again Ruggero Raimondi. The Kirov Opera performed it at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in January 2007. The work was produced in Tel Aviv by the (Israel Opera ) in November 2007. The African premiere was presented by the University of Cape Town in collaboration with Cape Town Opera in 2010. The South American premiere was presented by the Teatro Argentino of La Plata City, Argentina, in 2011. During the 2011/12 season, productions were given by the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in December, where the action took place inside a jumbo jet,〔John McCann, ''Opera'', London, April 2012, pp. 430—431〕and at the Teatro Comunale in Florence in January where the action was staged in an early 20th-century luxury spa.〔Matteo Sansone, ''Opera'', London, April 2012, p. 442〕 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「Il viaggio a Reims」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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