Le caïd
| Le caïd | |
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| Opera by Ambroise Thomas | |
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A scene from the premiere production
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| Description | opéra bouffon |
| Librettist | Thomas Sauvage |
| Language | French |
| Based on |
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Goethe |
| Premiere | 3 January 1849 Opéra-Comique, Paris |
Le caïd, also spelled Le kaïd (The Qaid), is a comic opera (opéra bouffon or opéra bouffe) in two acts composed by Ambroise Thomas to a libretto by Thomas Sauvage. It was premiered on 3 January 1849 by the Opéra-Comique at the second Salle Favart in Paris. The opera was originally titled Les boudjous (The budjus).
The premiere production of Le caïd by the Opéra-Comique was conducted by Théophile Tilmant and directed by Ernest Mocker. The opera received very favourable reviews and was Thomas's first major popular success. The work evinced a vogue for all things Algerian in the colonial power of France, which had conquered Algeria in 1830. It was revived by the Opéra-Comique on 31 August 1851, when it was given its 100th performance with Caroline Miolan-Carvalho as Virginie. It was last revived by the Opéra-Comique on 16 February 1911, receiving a total of 422 representations by that company, and was revived at the Gaîté-Lyrique on 18 May 1931. Its most recent revival was in November 2007 when it was staged at the Opéra-Théâtre in Metz in a production designed and directed by Adriano Sinivia and conducted by Jacques Mercier.
Outside France the opera was first performed in Brussels on 26 August 1849, in London at St. James's Theatre on 8 February 1850, and in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 18 April 1850. It was given in English at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 18 June 1851 (as The Cadi, or Amours among Moors) and in Manchester on 8 December 1880. It was performed in German in Vienna in 1856, Berlin in 1857, and Prague in 1860, and in Italian in Milan in 1863, Barcelona in 1865, Florence in 1877, and Naples in 1889.
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