''Le cadi dupé'' (''The Duped
Qadi
A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...
'', or ''The Duped Judge'') is an
opéra comique in one act by
Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a
French-language libretto by
Pierre-René Lemonnier. It premiered at the
Burgtheater in Vienna on 8 December 1761. The libretto had already been set by
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ( – ) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813).
He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical gen ...
in an opera that had premiered on 4 February of the same year at the Paris Foire St-Germain.
The music belongs to the
Turkish-influenced fashion of the period and features
janissary music, represented by
piccolo,
drums, and
cymbals.
Roles
Synopsis
The Cadi has been flirting with other women and neglecting his wife, Fatima. The mischievous Zelmire, who is in love with Nuradin, tricks the Cadi in order to teach him a lesson. She pretends to be Omar's daughter, Ali, who is considered less than desirable. The duped Cadi plans to divorce Fatima in order to marry the pretending Zelmire, but the truth is eventually revealed.
References
;Notes
;Bibliography
*Original Paris libretto: ''Le Cadi dupé, Opera-comique en un acte par l'Auteur du Maître en Droit, Répresenté pour la premiere fois sur le Théâtre de l'Opera-Comique de la Foire S. Germain, le 4 Fevrier 1761'', Paris, Duchesne, 1761 (a copy a
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*Bruce Alan Brown, ''Cadi dupé, Le'', in Stanley Sadie (ed.), ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', Grove (Oxford University Press), New York, 1997, I, p. 675,
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French-language operas
Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Opéras comiques
One-act operas
Operas
1761 operas
Opera world premieres at the Burgtheater