Haydée, ou Le secret is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 28 December 1847. The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's regular collaborator, Eugène Scribe and is based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée, Le parti de trictrac (1830).
The story is set during the 16th century wars between Venice and the Ottoman Empire and concerns a Venetian admiral, Lorédan, who can never forgive h...
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Haydée, ou Le secret is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 28 December 1847. The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's regular collaborator, Eugène Scribe and is based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée, Le parti de trictrac (1830).
The story is set during the 16th century wars between Venice and the Ottoman Empire and concerns a Venetian admiral, Lorédan, who can never forgive himself for once having cheated at dice. The title character is a Cypriot slave girl; her name is taken from Haidée, the pirate king's daughter, in Byron's poem Don Juan.
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