La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien
With Rossini’s La Donna Del Lago (1819), Walter Scott makes his entrance on the stage of Italian opera. His melodramma adapts Scott’s long poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), a true Scottish epic that describes King James V’s rivalry with both Borderers and Highlanders. The composer’s librettist, Andr...
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| description | With Rossini’s La Donna Del Lago (1819), Walter Scott makes his entrance on the stage of Italian opera. His melodramma adapts Scott’s long poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), a true Scottish epic that describes King James V’s rivalry with both Borderers and Highlanders. The composer’s librettist, Andrea Leone Tottola, bases his dramatisation on a French translation of the poem, simplifies and rewrites the text, as is often customary when adapting literature for the stage, thus modifying characters and highlighting the poem’s love interest. If the libretto is unfaithful to the letter of the source, the music pays homage to its spirit and conveys the heroic and legendary aspect of the drama with an extended, inventive and attentive orchestration, thus indicating a decisive step in the “Rossinian Revolution” with the development of a pastoral style, one of the bases of Romantic opera. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-61811746304b4436b4c5f7286a823c3d2024-02-13T14:37:35ZengPresses universitaires de RennesRevue LISA1762-6153911813010.4000/lisa.4483La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italienLiliane LascouxWith Rossini’s La Donna Del Lago (1819), Walter Scott makes his entrance on the stage of Italian opera. His melodramma adapts Scott’s long poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), a true Scottish epic that describes King James V’s rivalry with both Borderers and Highlanders. The composer’s librettist, Andrea Leone Tottola, bases his dramatisation on a French translation of the poem, simplifies and rewrites the text, as is often customary when adapting literature for the stage, thus modifying characters and highlighting the poem’s love interest. If the libretto is unfaithful to the letter of the source, the music pays homage to its spirit and conveys the heroic and legendary aspect of the drama with an extended, inventive and attentive orchestration, thus indicating a decisive step in the “Rossinian Revolution” with the development of a pastoral style, one of the bases of Romantic opera.https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/4483translationoperaScotlandepicmelodramaMacpherson James |
| spellingShingle | Liliane Lascoux La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien Revue LISA translation opera Scotland epic melodrama Macpherson James |
| title | La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien |
| title_full | La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien |
| title_fullStr | La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien |
| title_full_unstemmed | La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien |
| title_short | La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien |
| title_sort | la donna del lago de rossini premiere entree en scene de walter scott dans l opera italien |
| topic | translation opera Scotland epic melodrama Macpherson James |
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