OFFENBACH, J.: Mari a la porte (Le) [Operetta] (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2019)
Le mari a la porte
Composer: Offenbach, Jacques
Librettist/Text Author: Morand, Leon
Librettist/Text Author: Delacour, Alfred
Conductor: Galli, Valerio
Orchestra: Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra
Florestan Ducroquet: Mezzaro, Matteo
Henri Martel: Placa, Patrizio La
Rosita: Benitez, Francesca
Suzanne: Ogii, Marina
Set Designer: Parolini, Federic
Costume Designer: Rabatti, Agnese
Lighting Designer: Biondi, Luigi
Stage Director: Giacomazzi, Ugo
Stage Director: Gangi, Luigi Di
Television Director: Ricchetti, Matteo
Date of Production: 2019
Venue: Maggio Musical Fiorentino, Firenze
Playing Time: 00:54:56
Catalogue Number: 37844
UPC: 8007144378448
Un mari a la porte was premiered at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 22nd June 1859 and, chronologically, comes between two masterpieces such as Orphee aux enfers (21st October 1858) and Genevieve de Brabant (11th November 1859).
The libretto by Delacour and Morand offers a plot based on misunderstandings and misconceptions, something which characterized much of the contemporary French theatre and which would find its apotheosis, towards the end of the century, in the pochade and in Georges Feydeau's operas, in which, however the erotic and mischievous element always plays a prominent role that here is only present at the beginning (on his wedding night, Henri Martel, Suzanne's husband, wants to go into his bedroom but finds the door locked, because a debtor of his, a certain Florestan Ducroquet, has hidden in it and thrown the key out of the window).
