Une éducation manquée
opera by Emmanuel Chabrier
Une éducation manquée (French pronunciation: [yn edykasjɔ̃ mɑ̃ke], An Incomplete Education) is an opérette in one act and nine scenes by Emmanuel Chabrier. The French libretto is by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. Composed in 1878–79, the work, which is set in the 18th century, is in a lively, light operetta style in which Chabrier excelled and had perfected in L’étoile a year or so earlier. It was much admired by Ravel, Hahn and Messager, among others. One director drew parallels with earlier French opéras-comique by such as Favart; set in the eighteenth century, Chabrier's characters of a young count, his new very young wife and former tutor are "sophisticated equivalents of the characters in Favart's [Les Amours de] Bastien et Bastienne or Rousseau's Le Devin du Village.
Performance history
The ‘opérette’ was first performed on 1 May 1879 as part of an evening's entertainment organized by the ‘Cercle international’ in the Boulevard des Capucines, with piano accompaniment by Chabrier himself.
There is evidence that the Vitale Italian Operetta Company (Italy) prepared the work around 1904, and gave the first Buenos Aires performance at the Teatro Politeama on 12 September 1904 (as Tuono provvidenziale) and again in 1905. The work was revived in March 1910 in Monte Carlo and on 9 January 1911 at the Théâtre des Arts conducted by Gabriel Grovlez. In December 1918 Jane Bathori mounted the piece at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. The 1924 Paris production by Diaghilev, designed by Juan Gris and conducted by André Messager, had recitatives by Darius Milhaud to replace the spoken dialogue.
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