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

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| 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

Category:Operas by Camille Saint-Saëns

Category:French-language operas

Category:1887 operas

Category:Proserpina

Category:Libretti by Louis Gallet

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