Fortunio

Composer: Messager, Andre

Librettist/Text Author: Caillavet, G.-A. de

Conductor: Langree, Louis

Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Ensemble: Elements, Les

Clavaroche: Bou, Jean-Sebestiene

Comedien: Podalydes, Laurent

Fortunio: Dubois, Cyrille

Gertrude: Jouffroy, Sarah

Guillaume: Buffiere, Geoffroy

Jacqueline: Gillet, Anne-Catherine

Landry: Martin, Philippe-Nicolas

Lieutenant d'Azincourt: Derhet, Pierre

Lieutenant de Verbois: Dear, Thomas

Madelon: Feix, Alienor

Maitre Andre: Leguerinel, Franck

Maitre Subtil: Bertin-Hugault, Luc

Set Designer: Ruf, Eric

Costume Designer: Lacroix, Christian

Lighting Designer: Daniel, Stephanie

Stage Director: Podalydes, Denis

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Date of Production: 10-2020

Venue: Opera Comique, Paris

Playing Time: 02:02:08

Catalogue Number: 2.110672

UPC: 747313567256

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Andre Messager's Fortunio premiered in 1907 at the Opera Comique, where it received acclaim that was to last decades. One of the last composers to devote his entire career to opera and operetta, Messager exemplified in his music a feeling for dramatic pacing and the spirit of the Belle Epoque, qualities that permeate Fortunio, a comedie lyrique in which the dialogue in the libretto is given a continuous musical setting. Taking Alfred de Musset's play Chandelier as his source, Messager explores upper-class society at the turn of the 19th century with subtlety of characterisation and a thoroughly French orchesral transparency.