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La statue, the Glossary

La statue (The Statue) is an opera in three acts and five tableaux by Ernest Reyer to the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on tales from One Thousand and One Nights and La statue merveilleuse, an 1810 carnival play (pièce foraine) by Alain-René Lesage and Jacques-Philippe d'Orneval.^[1]

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1861 operas
Grand operas
Libretti by Jules Barbier
Libretti by Michel Carré
Music based on One Thousand and One Nights
Opera world premieres at the Théâtre Lyrique
Operas by Ernest Reyer
Operas set in the Levant

Adolphe Deloffre

Louis Michel Adolphe Deloffre (28 July 1817 – 8 January 1876) was a French violinist and conductor active in London and Paris, who conducted several important operatic premieres in the latter city, particularly by Charles Gounod and Georges Bizet.

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Alain-René Lesage

Alain-René Lesage (6 May 166817 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Émile Wartel

Louis Émile Wartel (31 March 1834, Paris – 5 May 1907, Paris) was an opera singer and teacher active in Paris.

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Baalbek

Baalbek (Baʿlabakk; Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Dervish

Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from درویش, Darvīsh) in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty.

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Ernest Reyer

Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823 – 15 January 1909) was a French opera composer and music critic.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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International Music Score Library Project

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain music scores.

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Jacques-Philippe d'Orneval

Jacques-Philippe d’Orneval called Dorneval was an 18th-century French playwright, born in Paris at an unknown date and died in 1766.

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Jinn

Jinn (جِنّ), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs.

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Jules Barbier

Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 182516 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Michel Carré

Michel Carré (20 October 1821, Besançon – 27 June 1872, Argenteuil) was a prolific French librettist.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Opéra comique

Opéra comique (plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. La statue and opéra comique are opéras comiques.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Orchestral percussion

Orchestral percussion refers to the various percussion instruments used in an orchestral setting.

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Orient

The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Qadi

A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.

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Recitative

Recitative (also known by its Italian name recitativo is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_statue

Also known as The Statue (opera).

La statue, the Glossary

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See also

1861 operas

Grand operas

Libretti by Jules Barbier

Libretti by Michel Carré

Music based on One Thousand and One Nights

Opera world premieres at the Théâtre Lyrique

Operas by Ernest Reyer

Operas set in the Levant

References