Les Abencérages [SEP] narrative location
Les Abencérages
Les Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenade (English: "The Abencerrages, or The standard of Granada") is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini with a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy, based on the novel "Gonzalve de Cordoue" by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. It was first performed on 6 April 1813 by the Académie Impériale de Musique (Paris Opera) at the Salle Montansier, with Napoleon and his wife, the Empress Marie-Louise, in the audience. The opera
1807), opera, music by Spontini
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