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''La chanson de Fortunio '' (''The Song of Fortunio'') is a short opéra-comique in one act by Jacques Offenbach with a French libretto by Ludovic Halévy and Hector Crémieux.〔Lamb A. "(Works Jacques Offenbach" (work list) ). In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. 〕 The music was composed within a week, with a further week being spent in preparations for the production. Its success was welcome after the failure of ''Barkouf'' a fortnight earlier.〔Harding J. ''Jacques Offenbach.'' John Calder, London, 1980.〕 Taken as a whole, this operetta has never really formed part of what may be termed the standard repertoire, but despite this, and especially during the period prior to the First World War, the title song remained extremely popular as a recital item, and indeed the writer of Offenbach's obituary in ''The Times'' considered the song itself to be one of his best compositions along with ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' and ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'' – with ''La belle Hélène'' following behind these "at some distance".〔Offenbach obituary. In ''The Times'', 6 October 1880, p. 3, column G.〕 Offenbach had composed music for the song of Fortunio in act 2, scene 3, of ''Le Chandelier'' by Alfred de Musset〔Musset – Théâtre Tôme II 'Collection du Flambeau'. Hachette, Paris, 1954.〕 for a revival of the play in 1850 at the Comédie-Française and this was published (by Heugel) as part of Offenbach's collection of songs ''Les voix mystérieuses'' in 1853, and taken up enthusiastically by the tenor in his concerts.〔 The librettists based their one-act ''La chanson de Fortunio'' around this song – with the story as a sort of sequel to the original play,〔 the melody of the song being heard in the overture. Messager composed an opera ''Fortunio'' (1907) based on the Musset play; Fortunio's song from that work was also set in Russian by Tchaikovsky as the first of his six Romances, Op. 28.〔(Tchaikovsky: Six Romances, Op. 28 )〕 ==Performance history== The first public performance of ''La chanson de Fortunio'' took place in the Salle Choiseul of the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 5 January 1861.〔Yon, Jean-Claude. ''Jacques Offenbach.'' Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2000.〕 Its premiere in Vienna was on 25 April and it continued to appear regularly on the bill in Paris during 1861 and 1862; it was presented in Germany in Bad Ems the following year.〔 The work was soon seen around Europe and beyond: Brussels and Berlin in 1861, Budapest, Prague, Graz and Stockholm in 1862, St Petersburg in 1864 (and 1905), New York and Basel in 1867, Milan in 1868 and London in 1871 (and 1907).〔Loewenberg A. ''Annals of Opera.'' London, John Calder, 1978.〕 In 1979 the opera was revived in an English translation by Michael Geliot, by Welsh National Opera, who staged it at the Teatr y Werin in Aberystwyth, the Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, the Teatr Gwynedd in Bangor, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, the Astra Theatre in Llandudno, and the Playhouse Theatre in Cheltenham. It formed the first part of an Offenbach double bill, the other half of the programme being ''M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . .'' (or, as it was advertised in English, ''Monsieur Colli-flahr's at Home''). It was recorded on Swedish television in 1981 with Gunnar Björnstrand as Maitre Fortunio.〔(Swedish Media Database (SMDB) ) Accessed 19 March 2012〕〔(Dagens Nyheters review ) Accessed 19 March 2012 〕 The State Opera of South Australia presented the opera in 2015 on a double bill with Mozart's ''Bastien und Bastienne''.〔(''Bastien und Bastienne'' / ''La chanson de Fortunip'' performance details ), State Opera of South Australia, October 2015〕〔("State Opera's lavish set and costumes with magnificent voices make for an amazing double bill" ) by Ewart Shaw, ''The Advertiser'', 11 October 2015〕 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「La chanson de Fortunio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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