La jacquerie | |
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Opera by Édouard Lalo | |
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Language | French |
Based on | the play La Jaquerie by Prosper Mérimée |
Premiere | 9 March 1895 Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco |
La jacquerie is a four-act opera commenced by Édouard Lalo in 1889 to a libretto by Édouard Blau and Simone Arnaud, based on the 1828 play of the same name by Prosper Mérimée.[1] The opera was unfinished when Lalo died in 1892, and it was completed by Arthur Coquard. The first performance was at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 9 March 1895.