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Don Quichotte
Don Quichotte ("Don Quixote") is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Massenet's "comédie-héroïque", like so many other dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the great novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. The immediate inspiration was "Le chevalier de la longue figure", a play by the poet
der Hochzeit des Comacho", an opera (serenata) by Georg Philipp Telemann, was based on an episode from the novel.
- 1767 "Don Quichotte" orchestral suite by Georg Philipp Telemann
- 1769 "Don Chisciotte della Mancia", an opera composed by Giovanni Paisiello.
- 1770 "Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace", an opera by Antonio Salieri, based on the same section of the novel as Telemann's opera.
- 1770 "Don Chisciotte", an opera buffa by Niccolò Piccinni