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''La dame blanche'' (''The White Lady'') is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no less than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels ''The Monastery'', ''Guy Mannering'', and ''The Abbot''.〔Elizabeth Forbes: "La dame blanche", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed February 19, 2009), ((subscription access) )〕 The opera has typical elements of the Romantic in its Gothic mode, including an exotic Scottish locale, a lost heir, a mysterious castle, a hidden fortune, and a ghost, in this case benevolent. The work was one of the first attempts to introduce the fantastic into opera and is a model for works such as Giacomo Meyerbeer's ''Robert le diable'' and Charles Gounod's ''Faust''. The opera's musical style also heavily influenced later operas like ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''I puritani'' and ''La jolie fille de Perth''.〔Warrack & West, Ewan 1992, pp. 172–173.〕 ==Performance history== ''La dame blanche'' was first performed on 10 December 1825 by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. It was a major success and became a standby of the 19th century operatic repertory in France and Germany. By 1862, the Opéra-Comique had given more than 1,000 performances of ''La dame blanche''. It was first performed in England in English as ''The White Lady'' at the Drury Lane Theatre on 9 October 1826, and in the United States in French at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 6 February 1827.〔Warrack & West 1992, pp. 172–173; Loewenberg 1978, columns 698–700.〕 The opera's popularity began to diminish towards the very end of the 19th century and performances since have been rare.〔 The opera was revived in Paris in 1996 by the conductor Marc Minkowski. Various recordings of the opera have been made (see below). The overture was put together from Boieldieu's themes by his student Adolphe Adam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La dame blanche」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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