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Abstract This article examines the production and reception history of C. S. Favart's La fête du château, commissioned by a French noblewoman, the Marquise of Monconseil, to mark her granddaughter's inoculation against smallpox in 1766. The first half of the article situates the vaudeville comedy at the Bagatelle (Monconseil's private theatre), underscoring the gendered tropes that had accrued to the disease in the late eighteenth century and the function of elite sociability in promoting its prevention. The second half of the article reconstructs the public trajectory of the work, which was presented at Versailles after the controversial inoculation of Louis XVI in 1774. Notably, the agent behind this theatrical public-health campaign was the queen, Marie Antoinette. A consideration of La fête du château's popularity and influence broadens our understanding of the conditions under which ancien-régime opera took on political meaning, as well as the role of women patrons and consumers in this process.
摘要本文考察了C.S.Favart的La fête du château的生产和接受历史，该作品由法国贵族蒙康塞尔侯爵夫人委托创作，以纪念她的孙女在1766年接种了天花疫苗。文章的前半部分将杂耍喜剧放在Bagatelle（蒙康塞尔的私人剧院），强调了18世纪末这种疾病产生的性别隐喻，以及精英社交在促进预防方面的作用。文章的后半部分重建了这部作品的公共轨迹，1774年路易十六接种疫苗后，这部作品在凡尔赛宫展出。值得注意的是，这场戏剧性的公共卫生运动背后的代理人是女王玛丽·安托瓦内特。考虑到La fête du château的受欢迎程度和影响力，我们可以更深入地了解古代制度歌剧具有政治意义的条件，以及女性赞助人和消费者在这一过程中的作用。
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Containing lively and provocative essays, Cambridge Opera Journal has a well-established reputation for publishing first-rate scholarship on opera in all its manifestations. The Journal not only contains material on all aspects of the European canon, it has now widened its scope to publish high-quality essays on American opera and musical theatre, on non-Western music theatres, and on contemporary works. Carefully researched and often illustrated with music examples and pictures, articles adopt a wide spectrum of critical approaches. As well as major articles, each issue generally includes reviews on recent publications of importance in the field.
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