Some of it had nothing to do with "Les Mousquetaires" e.g. the coming alive of the Jesus statue. Restudy & abridge the text then you can get many clever but relevant ideas. Don't adapt it. ("Mme.Favart" Op. Comique had costumes/costumier/es & a nineteenth century theatre. The Favarts were real and eighteenth century. The librettists were brilliant. It shouldn't just be Gilbert and Sullivan. It should be Da Ponte/ Schickaneder & Mozart, Meilhac & Halévy & Offenbach etc.. I don't know why they thought the Governor should be funny. He wasn't. Perhaps they thought his traffic bollard hat would be. I had such a hat the second time I played Spalanzani and it was heavy. C. f. Tourcoing version complete on youTube (bad picture but less over the top). Surely the abbé should be the funny one? A French friend told me he's not the Abbot of an Abbey but just a priest. Can an expert tell me if what I read a long time ago was true? That Louis Varney gave the composition of Act lll to someone-else? & is Simone's waltz there an alternative song? I seem to remember more of a patter song for her in Act lll c.f. Tourcoing.
French people love blaspheming against Jesus-Christ . Thanks for having noticed it. The rapture is coming very soon . Many left behind will cry. The wrath of God will fall on earth.
Concerning the third act and Simone’s waltz, this is an addition of Varney made few months after the premiere in 1880, it replace a little aria sung by Simone : "à la porte des révérends". The two Brissac arias ("Pour faire un brave mousquetaire" and "Gris, suis je gris vraiment ?" were added at the same time).
@@richardduployen6429 I didn’t hear or read anything about this story. "Les mousquetaires au couvent" was his first operetta in 3 acts so I don’t think it can be true, even if he was the son of Alphonse Varney (director of the Bouffe-Parisiens after Offenbach), he had to show what he was capable of. Maybe, such as Offenbach and Vizentini, he left a vocal score and somebody completed some parts as the entracte and parts of the orchestration of some numbers of the score, due to the short timing… we have to see the manuscript to know.
@@musiquesetoeuvresoubliees1866 Thank you. Yes. I think I heard the speculation that Vizentini composed for Act lll. If you know the marvellous book (1963) I still consult "Composers of Operetta" he wonders if the younger Varney used some of his father's compositions. Of course you can't always agree with Gervase Hughes and he can't mention every operetta or composer. He would have required several books! he gave me a prize for an article once & had various interesting jobs!
Une super version de cette operette! Magnifique !
muy bueno!
La mise en scène est pitoyable!!!!!!
Some of it had nothing to do with "Les Mousquetaires" e.g. the coming alive of the Jesus statue. Restudy & abridge the text then you can get many clever but relevant ideas. Don't adapt it. ("Mme.Favart" Op. Comique had costumes/costumier/es & a nineteenth century theatre. The Favarts were real and eighteenth century. The librettists were brilliant. It shouldn't just be Gilbert and Sullivan. It should be Da Ponte/ Schickaneder & Mozart, Meilhac & Halévy & Offenbach etc..
I don't know why they thought the Governor should be funny. He wasn't. Perhaps they thought his traffic bollard hat would be. I had such a hat the second time I played Spalanzani and it was heavy. C. f. Tourcoing version complete on youTube (bad picture but less over the top). Surely the abbé should be the funny one? A French friend told me he's not the Abbot of an Abbey but just a priest. Can an expert tell me if what I read a long time ago was true? That Louis Varney gave the composition of Act lll to someone-else? & is Simone's waltz there an alternative song? I seem to remember more of a patter song for her in Act lll c.f. Tourcoing.
French people love blaspheming against Jesus-Christ .
Thanks for having noticed it.
The rapture is coming very soon .
Many left behind will cry.
The wrath of God will fall on earth.
Concerning the third act and Simone’s waltz, this is an addition of Varney made few months after the premiere in 1880, it replace a little aria sung by Simone : "à la porte des révérends". The two Brissac arias ("Pour faire un brave mousquetaire" and "Gris, suis je gris vraiment ?" were added at the same time).
@@musiquesetoeuvresoubliees1866 Many thanks! Is there any truth in what I heard? It was said someone-else composed Act lll instead of Varney.
@@richardduployen6429 I didn’t hear or read anything about this story. "Les mousquetaires au couvent" was his first operetta in 3 acts so I don’t think it can be true, even if he was the son of Alphonse Varney (director of the Bouffe-Parisiens after Offenbach), he had to show what he was capable of.
Maybe, such as Offenbach and Vizentini, he left a vocal score and somebody completed some parts as the entracte and parts of the orchestration of some numbers of the score, due to the short timing… we have to see the manuscript to know.
@@musiquesetoeuvresoubliees1866 Thank you. Yes. I think I heard the speculation that Vizentini composed for Act lll. If you know the marvellous book (1963) I still consult "Composers of Operetta" he wonders if the younger Varney used some of his father's compositions. Of course you can't always agree with Gervase Hughes and he can't mention every operetta or composer. He would have required several books! he gave me a prize for an article once & had various interesting jobs!
Et Jésus-Christ qui descend de sa croix c'est complètement débile.