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LA MERE COUPABLE, Theater an der Wien, 08 May 2015 - 19:00

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  • Category: Operas
  • Event: LA MERE COUPABLE
  • Date/Time: 08 May 2015 - 19:00
  • Venue: Theater an der Wien
  • Address: Linke Wienzeile 6, 1060 Wien/Vienna (Map)
  • Other Dates: Show alternatives

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Beaumarchais’ third play about the Almavivas and their two married servants is more of a bourgeois melodrama than a comedy like its two predecessors. La mère coupable was also a huge success during the playwright’s lifetime and was intended to be set to music. A project with the French composer André Grétry, who was very successful at the time, was in the pipeline, but Beaumarchais’ death in 1799 meant that it was abandoned, and La mère coupable had to wait a long time to be set. It was rediscovered by the French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), who turned the melodrama into a gloomy studio play in which, however, love and Figaro’s prudence lead the characters, trapped by moral constraints as they are, to tolerance and ends happily.

The Almavivas live with their son Léon and foster daughter Florestine in Paris. Figaro and Suzanne are still in the Count’s service. Léon and Florestine are in love. A schemer by the name of Begearss has wormed his way into the family. His aim is to lay his hands on the Count’s fortune, because only he knows all the family’s guilty secrets which he cunningly exploits to further his own ends: Florestine is the Count’s illegitimate daughter and Léon the son the Countess had by Chérubin who has since fallen in the war. Begearss proves to the Count that Léon is not his son, whereupon the latter installs Florestine as his heir by means of a large dowry. The schemer now leads Léon and Florestine to believe that they are brother and sister and so cannot marry. He then proceeds to woo Florestine himself. But Figaro and Suzanne see through his deceit and work against him. The tangle of halftruths and secrets of the heart kept hidden out of shame is not unravelled until the Count, as the confusion reaches its climax, realizes that he loves his wife: all the lies come to an end, Begearss is thrown out and Léon and Florestine can marry.

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