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La mascotte ("The Mascot") is an operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
 by Edmond Audran
Edmond Audran

File:Edmond Audran.jpgEdmond Audran was a France composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Olivette , La mascotte , Gillette de Narbonne , La cigale et la fourmi , Miss Helyett , and La poup?e ....
. The French
France

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 libretto was by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot. The best-known number of its lively and tuneful score is the Act 1 duet for Bettina (the 'mascot' of the title) and Pippo, in which she tells him, with appropriate farmyard noises, that she loves him just as much as her beloved turkeys.

as first performed in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 on 28 December 1880.






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La mascotte ("The Mascot") is an operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
 by Edmond Audran
Edmond Audran

File:Edmond Audran.jpgEdmond Audran was a France composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Olivette , La mascotte , Gillette de Narbonne , La cigale et la fourmi , Miss Helyett , and La poup?e ....
. The French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 libretto was by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot. The best-known number of its lively and tuneful score is the Act 1 duet for Bettina (the 'mascot' of the title) and Pippo, in which she tells him, with appropriate farmyard noises, that she loves him just as much as her beloved turkeys.

Performance history

It was first performed in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 on 28 December 1880. It was very popular and 1,000 performances were given in just five years.

It was translated into English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 and staged at Abbey's Park Theatre in New York
New York

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 on 5 May, 1881, and in Brighton
Brighton

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, England
England

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 on 19 September the same year
1881

Year 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar ....
.

Synopsis

The story, set in the 17th century, is that of a farm girl who brought good luck to whoever possessed her, so long as she remained a virgin. The title was French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 slang
Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
 derived from the Provençal
Provençal language

Proven?al is one of several dialects of Occitan spoken by a minority of people in southern France, mostly in Provence. In the English language-speaking world, "Proven?al" is often used to refer to all dialects of Occitan, but it actually refers specifically to the dialect spoken in Provence, as well as in the southern portion of the Dauphin?...
 term masco, meaning witch.

The title (in English) initiated the use of the word 'mascot' in the English language to mean an animal, human, or thing which brought luck.

Roles and role creators

  • Bettina, the mascot mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano

    A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
     Grisier-Montbazon
  • Fiametta, daughter of Laurent XVII soprano
    Soprano

    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
     Dinelli
  • Prince Fritellini, Fiametta's fiancé tenor
    Tenor

    The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
     Charles Lamy
  • Pippo, a shepherd baritone
    Baritone

    Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
      Louis Morlet
  • Laurent XVII, prince baritone Paul Hittemans
  • Rocco, a farmer tenor Raucourt
  • Parafante, sergeant baritone
  • Mathéo, inn-keeper bass
  • Peasants, lords and ladies of court, soldiers, etc.


Sources

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
  • Traubner, R. Operetta: a Theatrical History (1983) New York.


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