''La Carmélite'' is a 1902 comic opera, a comédie musicale in four acts and five scenes, by Reynaldo Hahn, to a libretto by

Catulle Mendès Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. Early life and career Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux. After childhood and adolescence in Toulouse, he arrived in Paris in 185 ...

. Hahn's second opera, like the first it was premiered at the

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne ...

. InterInternational Opera Collector: IOC. - Volume 2 - Page 70 1997 - Hahn's second opera, La carmelite, was also given its premiere at the Opera-Comique, starring Emma Calve as Louise de La Valliere and Lucien Muratore as Louis XIV, with Hector Dufranne as the Archbishop.

Roles

* Emma Calvé as Louise de La Vallière mistress of Louis XIV * Lucien Muratore as Louis XIV *

Hector Dufranne Hector Dufranne (25 October 1870 – 4 May 1951) was a Belgian operatic bass-baritone who enjoyed a long career that took him to opera houses throughout Europe and the United States for more than four decades. Admired for both his singing and hi ...

as the Archbishop.

Recording

*Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain, Bru Zane recorded 2020, release ?.

References

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