Talk:Gustave III (Auber)

Set designs

The list of who did which act is.... very questionable. I believe this is taken from https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39684338s - which says that the set designs were by: Feuchère, Léon (acte I ; acte V, tableau 2) ; Diéterle, Jules (acte II) ; Alfred (acte III) ; Cicéri, Pierre-Luc Charles (acte IV) ; Philastre, René (acte V, tableau 1) ; Cambon, Charles (acte V, tableau 1). -

However,if we look at the holdings they have for the set designs, we discover... this doesn't work.

Act III: [1] Cicéri
Act IV: [2] Cicéri
Act V scene II: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7001008h/f1 and https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7001008h.r=Gustave%20III%20ou%20Le%20bal%20masqu%C3%A9?rk=107296;4 (same art, different states) - Cambon alone

It also lists https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8402896b.r=Gustave%20III%20ou%20Le%20bal%20masqu%C3%A9?rk=150215;2 as Philastre and Cambon, but without stating the act, and https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8437855s.r=Gustave%20III%20ou%20Le%20bal%20masqu%C3%A9?rk=21459;2 as Act V, Scene I, without giving the creator. None of this works, of course.

So.... which is misnumbered? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.4% of all FPs} 20:02, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Set design for Act III of the opera Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué, composed by Daniel Auber with a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Created for the première performance at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 27 February 1833.

The opera concerns some aspects of the real-life assassination of Gustav III, King of Sweden. Its libretto was used as the original basis for Giuseppe Verdi's later Un ballo in maschera, though Italian censorship forced numerous changes to that version.

Set design credit: Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri; restored by Adam Cuerden

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