Proserpine (Saint-Saëns)
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| name = Proserpine
| type = Drame lyrique
| composer = Camille Saint-Saëns
| image = Camille Saint-Saëns in 1900 by Pierre Petit.jpg
| image_upright =
| caption = The composer in 1900, photographed by Pierre Petit
| librettist = Louis Gallet
| language = French
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Proserpine is an 1887 drame lyrique in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto by Louis Gallet after Auguste Vacquerie.Sabina Teller Ratner Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works 0198163207 2002
Roles
- 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
- 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, Ediciones Singulares, sponsored Palazzetto Bru Zane 2016{{cite web|url=http://www.forumopera.com/breve/un-saint-saens-narrive-jamais-seul |title=Un Saint-Saëns n'arrive jamais seul |author= Laurent Bury |date=2016-09-28 |access-date=2018-05-18 |website=ForumOpera.com }}
References
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Category:Operas by Camille Saint-Saëns
Category:French-language operas
Category:Libretti by Louis Gallet
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