English: Massenet - Grisélidis, act I - The Marquis leaves for the wars
Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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THE MARQUIS LEAVES FOR THE WARS ACT I GRISELIDIS OPERATIC MIRACLE PLAY IN THREE ACTS AND A PROLOGUE Poem by Armand Sylvester and Eugene Morand. Music by Massenet. First pro-duction, Opera Comique, Paris, November 20, 1901, with Mme. Lucienne Breval. Producedat Brussels, March 18, 1902, and Milan, November 25, 1902. First production in America atthe Manhattan Opera House, New York, January 19, 1910. Characters GRISELIDIS, wife of the Marquis Soprano FlAMINA, the Devils wife Soprano BERTRADE Soprano The Marquis de Saluces Baritone ALAIN, a shepherd Tenor THE DEVIL Baritone THE PRIOR Baritone Scene and Period: Provence, France; the thirteenth century. Grisilidis is based on a modern mystery which was produced by Armand Sylvesterand Eugene Morand at the Comedie Francois in 1891. In this play the author gave a muchchanged version of a legend, Patient Grisel, which has had a place in European literaturesince the eleventh century. It is one of the stories that Boccaccio tells in his Decamero
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