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''Les deux aveugles'' ((:le dø avœɡl), ''The Two Blind Men'') is an 1855 one-act French ''bouffonerie musicale'' (operetta) by Jacques Offenbach.〔Lamb 1992, p. 1143.〕 The libretto was written by and was a condensation of his 3-act ''Les musiciens ambulants''.〔Teneo 1920, (p. 103 ).〕 The half-hour long piece is a comic sketch about two (supposedly) blind beggars, consisting of an overture and four numbers. Offenbach was bold in making light of the disabled poor, but he believed that his patrons would see the humour of the piece. Most Parisians had been pestered by beggars on Parisian street corners, and Offenbach's blind beggars were con men, rather than deserving outcasts of society. The little piece was an instant hit, praised for its catchy dance tunes, and it soon spread Offenbach's name and music around the world. ==Performance history== ''Les deux aveugles'' premiered on the opening night of the Bouffes-Parisiens on 5 July 1855 at the company's first theatre, the tiny Salle Lacaze on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. It was the hit of the evening and was performed at the Salle Lacaze into the fall, making stars of the comedians who appeared in it.〔Harding 1980, pp. 66–67.〕 After Offenbach's new winter theatre, the Salle Choiseul, opened in December, the show continued to be presented there. It had become so successful, that Louis-Napoléon invited Offenbach's company to perform it for representatives to the Congress of Paris in the Salon de Diane in the Palace of the Tuileries on 28 February 1856.〔Yon 2000, p. 171.〕 A revised version was presented in Paris at a matinee gala at the Opéra-Comique's second Salle Favart on 28 May 1858,〔Letellier 2010, p. 586; Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 214; Wolff 1953, p. 58.〕 with revivals on 6 November 1900,〔Wolff 1953, p. 58.〕 14 December 1910,〔 and 12 December 1934.〔 The piece was first seen in Berlin at Kroll's on 10 March 1856 and in Vienna at the Carltheater on 19 April, where it played as part of a tour by the French actor Pierre Levassor from the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.〔Loewenberg 1978, columns 918–919.〕 The first work by Offenbach to be presented in Vienna, it strongly influenced the subsequent career of .〔Gänzl 2001, "Treumann, Karl" p. 2071.〕 On 27 June 1856 Levassor and his partner Jules Lefort gave the first performance in London, a concert version at the Hanover Square Rooms,〔Gänzl 2001, "Les deux aveugles" p. 501.〕 and it was also part of the opening night of the Bouffes-Parisiens' first London season in 1857, which ran at St James's Theatre from 20 May to 14 July.〔 It was given in Antwerp (in French) on 21 November 1856,〔 New York at the Metropolitan Music Hall on 31 August 1857,〔 Buenos Aires on 13 October 1861, and Saigon, the first opera ever performed there, in the autumn of 1864.〔 ''Les deux aveugles'' was translated into German by Carl Friedrich Wittmann as ''Zwei arme Blinde'' and was performed in Vienna at the on 26 May 1863〔 and in Dresden on 19 November 1866.〔 In English it played at London's Gallery of Illustration as ''Beggar Thy Neighbour'' on 29 March 1870,〔 at London's large Gaiety Theatre as ''A Mere Blind'' (translated by H. B. Farnie and starring Fred Sullivan) on 15 April 1871,〔Gänzl 2001, "Sullivan" p. 1966.〕 and by Harry Rickards' company at the School of Arts in Sydney, Australia, as ''The Blind Beggars'' on 9 September 1873.〔 The Opéra de Monte Carlo performed it in French on 7 May 1902, and London's Ambassadors Theatre, on 11 May 1914 (also in French).〔 It had clearly become one of Offenbach's most successful one-act works. A complete performance of ''Les deux aveugles'' (followed by ''Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins'') forms part of the 1996 television film ''Offenbachs Geheimnis'', directed by István Szabó.〔(BFI database ), accessed 3 April 2013.〕 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「Les deux aveugles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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