La Fille de Madame Angot, Charles Lecocq
Title | La Fille de Madame Angot |
English Title | The daughter of Madame Angot |
Composer | Charles Lecocq |
Librettists | Clairville, Siraudin and Victor Koning |
Language | French, Dutch translation available |
Genre | Opera (three acts) |
First performance | 4 December 1872, Théâtre des Fantaisies Parisiennes, Brussels |
Time of action | Shortly after the French revolution. Paris between 1795 and 1799. |
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Main parts |
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Prominence of chorus | Very large |
Orchestra | 2 flutes, 1 oboe, 2 clarinets, 1 bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani/percussion, strings |
Special demands |
If desired, a ballet may be inserted in the third act; the music for this is available at request (the score here requires a second bassoon). In the second finale of the opera a trumpet is sounded from behind the scenes. |
Full score and orchestral parts | Available |
Level | Not difficult |
Length | 3 acts, about 2½ hours in all |
Music |
Extraordinarily charming, an entrancing stream of solos, duets, ensembles and choruses. Highlights: the song about Madame Angot, the great conspirators’ scene and the so-called Angot-waltz ending the second act.
In contrast to many operettas, the last act also contains much new and interesting music, and, if desired, a grand ballet-scene. |
Story |
Madame Angot was a popular character, known from a number of plays: a fish-wife who managed to become a millionairess in the upheavals of the French revolution.
The market-sellers of Paris have given Madame Angot’s daughter, Clairette, an education and have also chosen a husband for her: Pomponnet, a wig-maker.
Clairette, however, is in love with Ange Pitou, a street-singer with royalist sympathies. |
Costumes | First and third acts: townspeople. Second act: affectedly fashionable clothing of 1795 |
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Link | Wikipedia |