''Proserpine'' is an 1887 ''drame lyrique'' in four acts by
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (, , 9October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano ...
to a libretto by
Louis Gallet
Louis Gallet (14 February 1835 in Valence, Drôme – 16 October 1898) was a French writer of operatic libretti, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is remembered above all for his adaptations of fiction —and ...
after
Auguste Vacquerie.
Roles
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Proserpine (soprano)
* Angiola (soprano)
* Sabatino (tenor)
* Squarocca (baritone)
* Renzo (basse)
* Orlando (tenor)
* Ercole (baritone)
* Filippo (tenor)
* Gil (tenor)
* ''Une religieuse'' ‘a nun’
* ''Trois jeunes filles'' ‘three girls’
* ''Trois novices'' ‘three novices’
* ''Seigneurs, mendiants, religieuses, soldats'' ‘Lords, mendicants, nuns, soldiers’
Recordings
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Veronique Gens as Proserpine, Marie-Adeline Henry Angiola; Frédéric Antoun Sabatino; Andrew Foster-Williams Squarocca; Jean Teitgen Renzo; Mathias Vidal Orlando; Philippe-Nicolas Martin Ercole; Artavazd Sargsyan Filippo/Gil; Clémence Tilquin, a nun Munich Radio Orchestra Flanders radio choir
Ulf Schirmer
Ulf Schirmer (born 1959) is a German conductor and opera house administrator.
Biography
Born in Eschenhausen, Lower Saxony, Schirmer studied at the Bremen Conservatory, and also at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, with György Lig ...
, Ediciones Singulares, sponsored
Palazzetto Bru Zane 2016
References
Operas
Operas by Camille Saint-Saëns
French-language operas
1887 operas
Proserpina
Libretti by Louis Gallet
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