arie agdeleine

Drame sacré in 3 acts & 4 parts

Poem by Louis Gallet

Incidental Music by Jules Massenet

First performance: Odéon, Paris, Good Friday, April 11, 1873

First Cast:

Act I: La Magdaléene à la fontaine

Act II: Jésus chez la Magdaléene

Act III, Part 3: La Golgotha; La Magdaléene à la Croix

Act III, Part 4: Le Tombeau de Jésus et la Résurrection

French libretto English libretto

   Revived at the Odéon, February 19, 1874. There were 16 performances at the Opéra-Comique (March 24, 26, 28, 31, April 4, 1874 as an oratorio; April 12, 1906 as an opera; in Lille with Massenet conducting the performance at the Hippodrome; first produced at an opera in Nice on February 9, 1903; performed in Naples at the Teatro San Carlo, in Italian, March 26, 1902); performed in the United States on June 13 and 14, 1980 by the Opera Sacra.

Notes

   Originally, an oratorio, finally staged by Nice in 1903 and Paris in 1906.

Piano vocal score published by Hartmann, no date: plate no. 644).

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