Déjanire
Déjanire è un’opera in french di Camille Saint-Saëns, rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1911.
Déjanire is the title of two related French works by Camille Saint-Saëns: Musique de scène pour ‘Déjanire’ de Gallet (1898) and the four-act opera, or drame lyrique, Déjanire for which Saint-Saëns himself fashioned the dramatic scheme and libretto using Gallet's tragedy as a basis. The vocal writing in the musique de scène is exclusively choral in the manner of Ancient Greek narration and commentary, while in the drame lyrique it focuses on solo parts as in most operas. The musique de scène was written to inaugurate an arena in Béziers; the drame lyrique, last of Saint-Saëns' twelve operas, was written for Monaco. The latter's libretto has, besides Gallet, Sophocles' Trachiniae as a source, a main character being Hercule, in the path of Händel; Hercules had already been the subject of two Saint-Saëns tone poems: Le rouet d'Omphale (1869) and La jeunesse d'Hercule (1877).
Romantic music
Trama di Déjanire
Hercule has killed King Eurytus, and sacked the city of Oechalia with the intention of taking the king's beautiful daughter, Iole as his bride. The task of informing Iole of the impending marriage falls to Philoctète, who is actually her lover. Iole confesses her love for Philoctète to Hercule and must now marry him to save Philoctète's life. Meanwhile, Phénice tries to convince Hercule's wife, Déjanire, to leave him forever. Instead, the desperate Déjanire tries in vain to win back her husband. When this fails, she decides to help Iole by giving her a tunic impregnated with the blood of Nessus. Before he died, Nessus had told Déjanire that his blood had magic powers to make the unfaithful return. What Déjanire does not know is that the blood is actually tainted with a terrible poison. Iole gives the tunic to Hercule on their wedding day. When he puts on the fatal gift, he is overcome by an excruciating burning pain. In agony he throws himself into the flames of the wedding pyre and dying ascends to Mount Olympus.
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Libretto di Déjanire
Il libretto è scritto da Camille Saint-Saëns. L’opera è classificata nel genere drame lyrique, Romantic music.
Da Déjanire all’opera
Déjanire è un adattamento di Déjanire — soggetto letterario di partenza per il libretto.
Opere contemporanee
Rappresentate nel decennio a cavallo del 1911, altre 6 opere del repertorio archiviato di compositori diversi:
- Bacchus — Jules Massenet (1909)
- La fanciulla del West — Giacomo Puccini (1909)
- Der Rosenkavalier — Richard Strauss (1910)
- Don Quichotte — Jules Massenet (1910)
- Mese mariano — Umberto Giordano (1910)
- Isabeau — Pietro Mascagni (1911)
Altre opere di Camille Saint-Saëns
- Samson and Delilah (1877)
- Henry VIII (1883)
- Frédégonde (1895)
- Les barbares (1901)
- L'ancêtre (1906)
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