Offenbach: new OEK publication of Les Fées du Rhin
(October 2007)
The Offenbach Edition Keck has published the first-ever vocal score of the composer’s grand Romantic opera, Les Fées du Rhin, marking the latest stage in the progressive rehabilitation of this neglected work.
Severely truncated at its premiere in 1864, Les Fées du Rhin was restored to its full glory at the Montpellier Festival in 2002 and a recording was released on Universal’s Accord label. Stage productions soon followed in Ljubljana, Trier and Cottbus, and Marc Minkowski has conducted a concert performance in Lyon in 2005 and highlights from the opera in Zürich earlier this month.
The availability of a new score of Les Fées du Rhin is thanks to the long-term efforts of OEK editor-in-chief Jean-Christophe Keck. He has created a coherent edition by consulting the sources scattered in various libraries around the world or in private collections. It is now possible to study and perform not only the German version, translated for the Vienna production by Alfred von Wolzogen, but also the original French version which returns the opera to its original musical and theatrical conception. In addition to the vocal score now on sale, full performance materials for both versions, including full scores and orchestral parts, are available on hire.
Plans are now well underway for the much anticipated OEK edition of Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), combining the researches of Jean-Christophe Keck and Michael Kaye, which will for the first time provide an authoritative edition of this repertoire favourite.
> Further information on Les Fées du Rhin (Die Rheinnixen) (1864) (OEK)
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