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La Basoche

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at Carte's theatre, recalled in his autobiography, "If D'Oyly Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time." Carte leased out the theatre for a year and then sold it to Sir Augustus Harris, the co-librettist of
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While clerks party, and Roland hopes to unmask Marot and his wife, Colette, at work, dreams of her future life as a queen. In a duet, both Mary and Colette declare their love for the "king". The Duke returns from the royal palace where he has announced the arrival of Mary, who sends him off to
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Roland's party burst in to reveal Marot's existing marriage, but it is Mary who says that she is the wife of the king and the duke who in turn says that he is Mary's wife. After everyone else has left, the king's entourage arrive – only for Colette to receive them, and be taken to the
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commented that Carré's libretto was good enough to be presented as a straight play, without music, but that Messager's score lived up to it – "light and vivacious" – everything needed to maintain a place in the repertoire of the Opéra Comique. The critic in
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The duke realizes what has happened and wants Marot arrested, but it is Roland, now the Basoche king, who is taken. Convinced that he will hang, Marot makes his farewell, but he is pardoned by Louis, and leaves Paris with Colette, while Louis marries Mary.
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Clément Marot puts himself forward as a candidate against the pedant Roland (in a poem "Oui, de rimes je fais moisson"). As the king of the basochians is required to be a bachelor, he hides the existence of a wife, Colette, whom he has left behind in
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The piece received exceptionally high praise from the London critics but was not a great box-office success. It ran for 61 performances, from 3 November 1891 to 16 January 1892. When Carte withdrew the piece, several newspaper critics, including
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of the Basoche passes by the palace, and the two women realise who their "king" was. Colette consoles herself with the thought that she will have Clément back. Mary is disappointed, finding the false king more charming than the real one.
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request that the "king" attend her for dinner, and then goes off to get ready to receive him. Marot reaffirms his love for Colette, but Mary returns and sees the one she thinks is to be her husband; Colette begins to serve them dinner.
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Louis XII greets Colette, who cannot believe that the old man is her husband. Believing that he has been deceived, the King decides to send Longueville and Colette to England; alone, the duke thinks that the young woman loves him. The
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praised Carré's imagination, though finding an excess of fantasy and some loose construction in the piece; he thought Messager had composed a major score, of which the first act contained the finest music. In
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stated that "for the music, warm words of praise may be spoken", but thought the genre was "far too unfamiliar on the local stage" and Ryley ill-suited to the part, "not as funny as one could have wished."
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in Paris in 1890. Productions soon followed in continental Europe, Britain and the US. After that, the piece was revived repeatedly in France and elsewhere well into the 20th century.
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repeating the role of the duke. Messager himself conducted the 1900, 1902 and 1919 productions at the Opéra-Comique; later revivals were conducted by
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said, "The Basoche is more than a success; it is a triumph … the most artistic and beautiful comic opera the modern stage has witnessed for years".
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Various extracts were recorded during the 1920s and 30s (including some by Fugère). A complete performance of the score was broadcast by the
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was given French-language productions in Brussels in 1890 and Geneva in 1891. It was translated into German and performed as
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played for only six more performances, and the other planned operas were not written; the Royal English Opera House closed.
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to be "inspired" and – despite "a twaddly plot involving British royalty" – "one of Messager's most substantial pieces".
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thought the opera "a work of very great beauty and charm", though its reviewer teased Messager about a few conspicuously
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A square near the Châtelet, on the right the tavern du Plat d’Etain. The day of the election of the king of the Basoche.
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of the title was an ancient Parisian guild of law clerks, which from 1303 until it was abolished in 1791 during the
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in his 1962 study of operetta considers the work to have a good claim to be the composer's masterpiece. In 1995
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was revived at the Opéra-Comique up to the Second World War and given at least another 150 performances, with
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productions was brought on by the unfortunate combination of national mourning for the death of the
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was to some extent a state within a state, electing its own king and regulating its own affairs.
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for the charm of its scholarship, and the average opera-goer can enjoy it for its tunefulness".
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Finale I " Vive le Roi!" ("Long live the King!" – Chorus, Clément, Marie, Guillot, Colette)
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Finale III "Arrêtez! s'il s'agit d'être pendu" (Stop! If he is to be hanged" – Ensemble)
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The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
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commented that the composer had a rare gift, and that "the connoisseur can hear
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Shaw's Music â€“ The Complete Musical Criticism of Bernard Shaw, Volume II
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in 1930 using the English version by Harris and Oudin, with a cast headed by
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Shown in the score as "Trial", a character tenor style named after
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and Fugère and was revived there in 1927. It was presented at the
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had permitted the students of Paris to form a guild called "La
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During the run, Clement was also played by John McCauley and
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During the 1880s Messager had met with mixed fortunes. His
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The action takes place in Paris in 1514. In 1303, King
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was to be given in alternation with the second run of
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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
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Coloured illustration from an 1890 French magazine showing a young woman in a simple dress kneeling before a young nobleman, both in mediaeval costume
opéra comique
André Messager
Albert Carré
Basoche
Louis XII of France
Opéra-Comique
opérette
La fauvette du temple
La BĂ©arnaise
Les deux pigeons
Le bourgeois de Calais
Isoline
Le mari de la reine
Théâtre du Vaudeville
Firmin Bernicat
Basoche
French Revolution
Opéra-Comique
Salle du Théâtre Lyrique
Voice type
Conductor
Jules Danbé
baritone
Gabriel Soulacroix
Lucien Fugère
tenor
Ernest Carbonne
Barnolt
bass

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