La Colombe. Opéra-comique en 2 actes - Gounod, Charles 1818-1893; Barbier, Jules 1825-1901; Carré, Michel 1821-1872 (Paris Choudens, 1866)
La Colombe (The Dove) is based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de La Fontaine, itself after a tale (V,9) in The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It premiered in a one-act version at the Theater der Stadt in Baden-Baden on 3 August 1860, where it was well received and performed four times. It was presented in a revised two-act version, with additional music, on 7 June 1866 by the Opéra-Comique, Paris.
This edition lists the casts of the Baden-Baden premiere and the Paris Opéra-Comique version.
Partition piano solo
Keywords: Opéra-Comique (Paris, France); 19th Century (1801-1900); Opera; Paris (France)