La Colombe | |
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Opéra comique by Charles Gounod | |
Translation | The Dove |
Librettist | |
Language | French |
Based on | Le Faucon by Jean de la Fontaine |
Premiere | 3 August 1860 (one-act version) |
La Colombe (The Dove) is an opéra comique in two acts by Charles Gounod with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de La Fontaine, itself after a tale (V,9) in The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.
It premiered in a one-act version at the Theater der Stadt in Baden-Baden on 3 August 1860, where it was well received and performed four times. It was presented in a revised two-act version, with additional music, on 7 June 1866 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris.[1]