Le Henri VIII de Saint-Saëns : entre affirmation idéologique et liberté théâtrale

A late example of French grand opera, Saint-Saëns’ Henri VIII (1883), a setting of the libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre draws from Shakespeare’s and Fletcher’s Henry VIII as well as Calderón de la Bark’s La Cisma de Inglaterra. Composed and first performed when the French Republic wa...

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Main Author: Thierry Santurenne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2011-12-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/4748
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