Cyrano de Bergerac [SEP] native language
Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist.
A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the seventeenth century. Today he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most noted drama "Cyrano de Bergerac", which, although it includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth.
Since the 1970s, there has been a
Cyrano (Damrosch)
Cyrano is an opera in four acts composed by Walter Damrosch to an English language libretto by William James Henderson based on Edmond Rostand's play, "Cyrano de Bergerac". It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on February 27, 1913, with Pasquale Amato in the title role and Frances Alda as Roxane.
Background and performance history.
By the time Damrosch began his Cyrano project, Rostand's play, "Cyrano de Bergerac", on which the opera is based,