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''Le duc d'Albe'' (original French title) or ''Il duca d'Alba'' (later Italian title: ''The Duke of Alba'') is an opera in three acts originally composed by Gaetano Donizetti in 1839 to a French language libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier, and intended for performance at the Paris Opéra. However, William Ashbrook notes that "Rosine Stoltz, the director's mistress, disliked her intended role of Hélène and Donizetti put the work aside when it was half completed"〔Ashbrook 1998, p. 1263〕 Donizetti then abandoned the score in favour of continuing to work simultaneously on both ''L'ange de Nisida'' and ''L'elisir d'amore'',〔 and thus it was nearly 34 years after the composer's death that it was completed by his former pupil Matteo Salvi and received its first performance in an Italian translation and under its Italian title ''Il duca d'Alba'' at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 22 March 1882 with Leone Giraldoni in the title role, Abigaille Bruschi Chiatti as Amelia di Egmont, and Julián Gayarre as Marcello. It received almost no performances in Italian until the mid-20th century and was only given its first performances in French in May 2012. ==Composition history== The opera had been originally commissioned for the Paris Opéra in 1839, and Donizetti worked on it throughout most of that year. However, he abandoned the project with only the first two acts completed, plus notes for the melodies and bass lines for acts 3 and 4.〔Edward Rothstein, 30 May 1992, ("A Donizetti Work Is Resurrected, Sets and All" ), ''The New York Times''〕 The opera remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1848. Although abandoned for the Opéra and still incomplete, Donizetti felt that his contract for this opera had been broken and, in late May 1845, decided to leave Vienna for Paris where he would claim a forfeit from the Opéra for its non-production, which still unfinished, as was the libretto. He left Vienna for the last time on 10 July 1845, but appears to have done nothing about the claim when he arrived in Paris, and his final illness soon claimed him.〔Weinstock 1963, pp. 231—232〕 In 1855, Scribe and Duveyrier's libretto was transferred to Verdi's opera ''Les vêpres siciliennes'', with the setting changed from the Spanish occupation of Flanders in 1573 to the French occupation of Sicily in 1282. In 1881 Matteo Salvi, a former pupil of Donizetti's, completed the opera from Donizetti's notes with the help of Amilcare Ponchielli, Antonio Bazzini and Cesare Domeniceti.〔John Rockwell, 31 October 1982, ("Concert: Eve Queler leads ''Alba''" ), ''The New York Times''.〕 Angelo Zanardini translated Scribe's libretto from the original French into Italian, and the names of the two lovers, 'Henri' and 'Hélène', which by that time had been used in ''Les vêpres siciliennes'' were changed to 'Marcello' and 'Amelia'.〔Yolen Buldrini, ( "Dossier: ''Il Duca d'Alba''" ), on Forum Opéra (accessed 26 December 2013)〕 When Donizetti abandoned the opera, he re-cycled the famous tenor aria, 'Ange si pur' ( 'Spirto gentil' in the Italian version) for his 1840 opera ''La favorite''. For the premiere, Salvi composed a replacement aria, 'Angelo casto e bel'. He also added recitatives and combined acts 3 and 4 into a single final act. 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「Le duc d'Albe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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