Broadside with 48 scenes from the zarzuela in three acts, 'The Valley of Andorra'

Marés, José María (1804-1875) (workshop of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1860

Height:

43.5 cm  (17 1/8 in.)

Width:

31.0 cm  (12 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

wood engraving

Description

Premiered in the Circo Theatre in Madrid on 5 November 1852, "El valle de Andorra", by the composer Joaquín Gaztambide and the librettist Luis de Olona, is based on the comic opera in three acts of the same name - "Le val d’Andorre" - by the French composer Jacques Fromental Halévy, to a libretto by the Count of Saint-Georges, which had been premiered in the Comic Opera Theatre in Paris in 1848.
It is a zarzuela with a rural setting, about love. The protagonist, who is loved by three women at the same time, decides to desert the army when he is called up. After many ups and downs, he is captured and condemned for desertion, but then rescued. The opera concludes as love prevails.

Iconclass

48C863
operetta, musical

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Side drum [2729]
Bugle [3822]

Musical works

Gaztambide, Joaquín -- El valle de Andorra

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3617