La reine de Saba

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La reine de Saba ("The Queen of Sheba") is a grand opera in four or five acts by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré inspired by Gérard de Nerval's Le voyage en Orient. It premiered at the Paris Opera on February 28, 1862. An English reworking of the libretto by Henry Farnie "interwoven [with] certain legends and traditions of freemasonry" was titled Irene. It transposed the action to Istanbul in the time of Suleyman th... more
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Opera

Librettist

Jules Barbier

Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a...

Michel Carré

Michel Carré (20 October 1821 – 27 June 1872) was a prolific French librettist. He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing...
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Composition

Composer

Charles Gounod

Charles-François Gounod (IPA: [ɡuno]; 17 June 1818 – 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and an artist father. His mother was his first piano teacher. Under her...
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