| La Colombe | |
|---|---|
| Opéra comique by Charles Gounod | |
 The composer in 1859, at the premiere of Faust | |
| 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]
- ^ Huebner 1990, pp. 58–59; Huebner 2001, p. 338; Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 196; Letellier 2010, p. 358.