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L'attaque du moulin
L'attaque du moulin ("The Attack on the Mill") is a "drame lyrique" (opera) in four acts by the French composer Alfred Bruneau. The libretto, by Louis Gallet with the collaboration of Émile Zola, is based on a short story by Zola (included in the collection "Les soirées de Médan"). Zola's story is about the Franco-Prussian War, but the setting of the opera was changed to the period of the French Revolution.
Performance history.
Léda" (1884) and "La Belle au bois dormant" (1886). In 1887, he produced his first opera, "Kérim".
The following year, Bruneau met Émile Zola, launching a collaboration between the two men that would last for two decades. Bruneau's 1891 opera "Le Rêve" was based on the Zola story of the same name, and in the coming years Zola would provide the subject matter for many of Bruneau's works, including "L'attaque du moulin" (1893)