Le Chandelier
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Le Chandelier is an 1835 play in three acts by French dramatist Alfred de Musset.[1]
The play was first published in 1835 in Revue des deux Mondes. It was first staged at the Théâtre Historique in August 1848 with Mademoiselle Maillet as Jacqueline.[2] In October 1850, it was produced at the Comédie-Française with a cast including Delaunay as Fortunio and Allan as Jacqueline. In October 1850, the interior minister Léon Faucher had the work banned, a decision confirmed in subsequent seasons.[3]
Jacques Offenbach, who wrote incidental music for the Comédie-Française production, made a sequel entitled La chanson de Fortunio. An opera of 1907 by André Messager, Fortunio, was based closely on the play.
References
[edit]- ^ Musset – Théâtre Tôme II 'Collection du Flambeau'. Hachette, Paris, 1954.
- ^ A note on the premiere, in the Œuvres complètes [Lorenzaccio; Le Chandelier; Il ne faut jurer de rien]. Charpentier, Paris, 1888, p319.
- ^ Alfred de Musset: Œuvres complètes [Lorenzaccio; Le Chandelier; Il ne faut jurer de rien]. Charpentier, Paris, 1888.
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