Panurge (opera)

Panurge
Haulte farce musicale by Jules Massenet
Poster for the premiere
Librettist
LanguageFrench
Based onPantagruel
by Rabelais
Premiere
25 April 1913 (1913-04-25)

Panurge is an opera (titled 'Haulte farce musicale') in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Georges Spitzmuller and Maurice Boukay, after Pantagruel by Rabelais. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris on 25 April 1913, nearly a year after Massenet's death, one of three operas by the composer to have premiered posthumously, the others being Cléopâtre (1914) and Amadis (1922).