175 years ago today, Le Prophète was first performed. “People of my father’s generation would rather have doubted the solar system than the supremacy of Le Prophète over all other operas.” - Reynaldo Hahn.
288. Le Prophète (Meyerbeer)
Category: French opera
92. Ba-ta-clan / Sur un volcan (Jacques Offenbach) – REVISED
A brilliant Chinoiserie musicale. (And a volcano that didn't erupt.)
276. La Esmeralda (Bertin)
Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) - with a libretto by Victor Hugo himself.
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