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- Robert Xavier Rodríguez
Le Diable Amoureux (1978)
- Alhambra RXR (World)
- 2(2pic)2(ca)2(bcl)2/2210/2perc/hp.cel/str
- chorus
- Soprano, Mezzo soprano, Tenor, Bass Baritone
- 55 min
- Libretto by the composer and Frans Boerlage based on a story by Jacques Cazotte.
- English
Programme Note
Synopsis:
Based on a romantic fantasy by the 18th-century French writer, Jacques Cazotte, Rodriguez’s opera concerns the devil, in the form of a beautiful woman, who arrives in medieval Provence to work some dangerous mischief. At the betrothal banquet of the son of a local baron, the devil first seduces the son and then tempts the baron to possessive thoughts of his future daughter-in-law. The ineffective son does not resist but the father does and it is his constancy that saves the entire family from tragedy.
Based on a romantic fantasy by the 18th-century French writer, Jacques Cazotte, Rodriguez’s opera concerns the devil, in the form of a beautiful woman, who arrives in medieval Provence to work some dangerous mischief. At the betrothal banquet of the son of a local baron, the devil first seduces the son and then tempts the baron to possessive thoughts of his future daughter-in-law. The ineffective son does not resist but the father does and it is his constancy that saves the entire family from tragedy.