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|image=Alfredo Edel - Jules Massenet - Le mage.jpg

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|caption=Le Mage

|text=Poster for the world premiere of Massenet's opera Le Mage on 16 March 1891 at the Paris Opéra. The libretto by Jean Richepin recounts the fraught love story of Zarastra, a Persian general and magus, and Anahita, a captive Touranian queen. The French tenor Edmond Vergnet sang the title role at the premiere.

|credit=Alfredo Edel. Restoration by Adam Cuerden

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