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Angélique (opera)

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Angélique is a 1927 French opera by Jacques Ibert to a libretto by "Nino", a pseudonym of Michel Veber, Ibert's brother-in-law.[1] A 1996 recording conducted by Yoram David was released on Fonit.

References

  1. ^ Michael Raeburn - 2007 The Chronicle of Opera 0500286671 p.185 "28 January Premiere of Angelique (Ibert/Nino) at the Theatre Beriza, Paris. The work ... By far the most popular 'new' opera of the period (it was translated into eighteen languages), the work presents the interaction of an intellectual composer, ...The work, based on the old legend of the man who puts his shrewish wife up for sale"