| Titre | Un libretto inconnu de l'opéra bouffe de I. S. Turgenev : Le dernier sorcier | |
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| Auteur | Henri Granjard | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 14, no 3, juillet-septembre 1973 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Documents |
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| Page | 349-375 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Henri Granjard, An unknown libretto of the 'opéra bouffe' by I. S. Turgenev " The last sorcerer ".
Among the Maupoil documents (Bibliothèque nationale, Nouvelles acquisitions françaises, VII : Varia, No. 16.278), there exists a small blue note-book, where an unknown hand wrote the only known complete version of the libretto in one act of the 'opéra bouffe' The last sorcerer. This version, of which the article below reproduces the text, was probably written in Courtanevel during the summer of 1859, because Turgenev mentions the " scenario of Krakamiche, " the principal character of the 'opéra bouffe' in question, in two letters unpublished until 1972 written at the end of his sojourn in 1859 in the country of Brie. It would be a mistake therefore to place the composition of The last sorcerer between 1865 and 1867 and adopt the point of view of André Mazon who filed the drafts of Turgenev pertaining to the 'opéras bouffes' in the ledger called Registre des brouillons de 1865 à 1867 at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The present article tends to establish that Turgenev started to work on the libretti of the 'opéras bouffes' already in the 50s. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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