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Le songe d'une nuit d'été
Le songe d'une nuit d'été ("A Midsummer Night's Dream") is an opéra-comique in three acts composed by Ambroise Thomas to a French libretto by Joseph-Bernard Rosier and Adolphe de Leuven. Although it shares the French title for Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", its plot is not based on the play. Shakespeare himself is a character in the opera as are Elizabeth I and Falstaff.
Performance history.
The opera was premiered on 20
"Quatre-vingt-treize", play based on the novel by Victor Hugo, by Paul Meurice, Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin), 24 December 1881
- "Le Songe d'une nuit d'été", fairy-tale after Shakespeare (1886)
- "Struensée", drama, Paris, Comédie-Française, 5 November 1898
- Plays written in collaboration
- With Auguste Vacquerie : "Paroles", comedy based on Shakespeare, Paris, Second Théâtre-Français, 28 February