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A poster for the Paris premiere of
Jules Massenet
's 1910 opera
Don Quichotte
at the
Gaîté-Lyrique
. Loosely based on
Cervantes
' novel
Don Quixote
, this opera in five acts follows the eponymous knight as he attempts to retrieve a necklace and win the love of the beauty Dulcinée. The opera was scored to a French
libretto
by
Henri Caïn
.
Poster:
Georges Rochegrosse
; restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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