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''Les festes vénitiennes'' ("Venetian Festivities"), also spelled ''Les fêtes vénitiennes'',〔The spelling more often employed today, according to modern French orthography, is ==Performance history== At the beginning of the 18th century the Paris Opéra public was growing dissatisfied with the traditional "operatic fare consisting of lyric tragedies cast invariably in the mould created by Lully and Quinault",〔Pitou, p. 223.〕 and the innovative nature of the ''opéra-ballet'', with its realistic locations and characters, and its comic plots, was seen as a viable alternative. The format of the new genre was exceedingly flexible: each entrée had its own independent intrigue and characters, and the various acts were loosely linked together by a tenuous thread (in ''Les festes vénitiennes'', the Venice location).〔 Campra and Danchet's opera proved incredibly popular from the beginning, and, through a trial and error approach, "it perpetuated itself to the point where new entrées were written to replace the acts that seemed to be losing their appeal".〔 Between June and December 1710, Campra and Danchet experimented with a total of two prologues and eight〔According to Anthony there were seven of them, but in fact there were eight, as is analytically stated below. The second prologue is just a shortened version of the original one.〕 entrées and the opera ran for several dozen performances, reaching its 51st mounting on 14 October when it was restructured in a version with a shortened prologue and four entrées〔Professor Anthony writes that, according to "Ballard’s printed editions", the version given at the 51st performance on 14 (and not 10) October 1710 had five entrées, including ''Les serenades et les jouers'' (which had been previously suppressed on 5 September). Although it has not been possible to check the 1710 printed libretto, surely Anthony’s statement does not accord with all the other sources cited in this article, and in particular with Ballard’s 1714 'printed edition' of all the librettos of the opera, which reports, regarding the 51st performance, a structure in a prologue and the following four entrées: ''Les devins'' as the first entrée, ''L’Amour saltinbanque'' (sic, cf. below) as the second, ''L’Opéra'' as the third, and ''Le bal'' as the fourth ((''Recueil general des opera...'' ), p. 132).〕 (which were to become five in the following month of December). After its unprecedented success in 1710-1711, the opera was regularly revived over the next half-century (in 1712, 1713, 1721, 1731-1732, 1740, 1750-1751 and 1759), the different entrées being swapped around at various times, and provided ample opportunity for almost all the major artists who appeared on the stage of the Paris Opéra in this period.〔Pitou, p. 224; Anthony; Lajarte, p. 113.〕 Eventually, it chalked up the incredible number of about three hundred performances.〔(''Le magazine de l'opéra baroque'' ).〕 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 fêtes vénitiennes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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