Sapho. Pièce lyrique en cinq actes - Massenet, Jules 1842-1912; Caïn, Henri 1859-1937; Bernède, Arthur 1871-1937; Carvalho, Léon 1825-1897; Carré, Albert 1852-1938 (Paris Au Ménestrel, 1909)
Vocal score with a handwritten mise en scène on interleaves, some containing cut-out fragments (mostly floorplans) on chalk paper from the mise en scène by Albert Carré edited by E. Carbonne and printed by Delanchy in 1909. Further exemplars of the mise en scène are preserved at the Bibliothèque de l'Association de la Régie Théâtrale, Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, S 17 (I-III).
Digitized by iGuana, Spring 2022
Premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, 27 November 1897, with a mise en scène by Léon Carvalho. Revised for the same venue, January 1909, with a mise en scène by Albert Carré
Ex libris Norgas (ms.), Paul-Edmond E. Bellevaut (stamp) and an unnamed collector (stamp showing two hands and a globe)
Keywords: Daudet, Alphonse -- 1840-1897; Opéra-Comique (Paris, France); 19th Century (1801-1900); Opera; Staging; France