{"id":1061,"date":"2011-04-20T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2013-01-08T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:56:10","slug":"newly-digitized-opera-scores-luigi-cherubini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2011\/04\/20\/newly-digitized-opera-scores-luigi-cherubini\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-digitized opera scores: Luigi Cherubini"},"content":{"rendered":"

These operas by Cherubini are among the latest additions to our digital scores collection; find them, and many others, in Digital Scores and Libretti<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\"Luigi<\/a>

Luigi Cherubini. "Guide mes pas," Les Deux Journ\u00e9es. Mus 637.1.663<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Les deux journ\u00e9es<\/a><\/strong> : op\u00e9ra comique en 3 actes \/ paroles de J.N. Bouilly; musique de Cherubini; partition de piano et chant. Paris: M. Schlesinger, [1837?]. Mus 637.1.663<\/p>\n

A vocal score of Cherubini’s most successful opera, premiered in 1800 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Feydeau and repeatedly revived during the first half of the nineteenth century. Bouilly purportedly based his libretto – a story of political persecution, disguises, narrow escapes, and eventual reconciliations – on events he witnessed during the French Revolution, but the action of Les deux journ\u00e9es<\/em> is shifted to 1647, during Cardinal Mazarin’s time as Chief Minister.<\/p>\n

Faniska<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cherubini’s only Singspiel<\/em>, written for the Theater am K\u00e4rntnertor in Vienna and premiered on February 25, 1806. Joseph Sonnleithner’s libretto, based on Pix\u00e9r\u00e9court\u2019s melodrama Les Mines de Pologne<\/em>, bears some similarity to the captivity and rescue plot of Lodo\u00efska<\/em>, down to the dramatic third-act attack on the villain’s castle.<\/p>\n

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Luigi Cherubini. Manuscript of Terzetto, Faniska. Mus 637.1.690 <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n