Cycle
Folies parisiennes
L’Arlésienne
& le Docteur Miracle
L’Arlésienne: a musical tale by Georges Bizet for narrator, vocal ensemble and orchestra, after Alphonse Daudet’s drama of the same name. Text by Hervé Lacombe.
Le Docteur Miracle: a one-act opéra-comique by Georges Bizet, libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy, first performed at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 9 April 1857.
Le Docteur Miracle: a one-act opéra-comique by Georges Bizet, libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy, first performed at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 9 April 1857.
Symphonic Music
Operetta

© Thomas Amouroux
L’Arlésienne began as a short story by Alphonse Daudet, published in the daily newspaper L’Événement in August 1866, and later included in his Lettres de mon moulin (1869). It was inspired by the suicide of a nephew of the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral as a consequence of unrequited love. Daudet himself adapted the story for the stage: it became a play in three acts and five tableaux, with incidental music by Bizet. Hervé Lacombe has now created a text, spoken by a narrator, telling the story of L’Arlésienne more concisely, while enabling us to hear the full score of the work for chorus and orchestra.
Le Docteur Miracle was written for an opera competition organised in 1856 by Jacques Offenbach. Candidates were to set the one-act libretto of Le Docteur Miracle. Georges Bizet, aged barely twenty, was awarded first prize jointly with Charles Lecocq. Rather surprising in Bizet’s operatic career, this one-act farce reveals his comic talent.
Le Docteur Miracle was written for an opera competition organised in 1856 by Jacques Offenbach. Candidates were to set the one-act libretto of Le Docteur Miracle. Georges Bizet, aged barely twenty, was awarded first prize jointly with Charles Lecocq. Rather surprising in Bizet’s operatic career, this one-act farce reveals his comic talent.
Dates
Performers
ORCHESTRE DE L’OPÉRA NORMANDIE ROUEN
Pierre Dumoussaud conductor
Pierre Lebon stage director, set and costume designer
Bertrand Killy lighting
Laurette Sheva Tehoval
Véronique Marie Kalinine
Le Capitaine Silvio Sahy Ratia
Le Podestat Florent Karrer
L’Assistant du Docteur Miracle / L’Innocent Pierre Lebon
Balthazar Eddie Chignara
Mitifio / Frédéri Aurélien Bednarek
Rose / Vivette Iris Florentiny
Pierre Dumoussaud conductor
Pierre Lebon stage director, set and costume designer
Bertrand Killy lighting
Laurette Sheva Tehoval
Véronique Marie Kalinine
Le Capitaine Silvio Sahy Ratia
Le Podestat Florent Karrer
L’Assistant du Docteur Miracle / L’Innocent Pierre Lebon
Balthazar Eddie Chignara
Mitifio / Frédéri Aurélien Bednarek
Rose / Vivette Iris Florentiny
Bru Zane Mediabase
Digital resources for French Romantic music
Georges Bizet