Les vêpres siciliennes (French pronunciation: [le vɛːpʁ sisiljɛn]; The Sicilian Vespers) is a grand opera in five acts by the Italian romantic composer...

he concluded an agreement with the Opéra to write what became Les vêpres siciliennes, his first original work in the style of grand opera. In February...

were under way for a new Verdi opera written specially for her, Les vêpres Siciliennes. Her performance of Les Huguenots , scheduled for the beginning of...

significance of the events to both France and Italy, Giuseppe Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes (1855) was originally written for the Paris Opera to a libretto by...

opera after the 1850s was its handling by Giuseppe Verdi, whose Les vêpres siciliennes (1855), proved to be more widely given in Italy and other Italian-language...

shortly after its premiere in June 1855. Under its original title, Les vêpres siciliennes, the libretto was prepared by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier...

(The Marriage of Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Hélène (Les vêpres siciliennes), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Elsa von Brabant (Lohengrin)...

Francesco Maria Piave 3 Italian La Fenice, Venice 6 Mar 1853 19 Les vêpres siciliennes Charles Duveyrier Eugène Scribe 5 French Salle Le Peletier, Paris...

concluded an agreement with the Paris Opéra to write what became Les vêpres siciliennes, his first grand opera, although he had adapted his earlier I Lombardi...

sortilèges for the company. At the Hamburg State Opera, he staged Les vêpres siciliennes (1969), From the House of the Dead (1972), Billy Budd (with Richard...