Scanderberg
Scanderberg is an opera by the French composers François Francoeur and François Rebel, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 27 October 1735. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de La Motte and Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, is based on the life of the Albanian patriot Skanderbeg, who led the resistance against the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.
External links[]
- (in French) Libretto at "Livrets baroques"
- (in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881, p. 608.
Categories:
- French-language operas
- Tragédies en musique
- Operas
- Operas set in the 15th century
- Operas set in Europe
- Albania in fiction
- Operas based on real people
- Cultural depictions of Skanderbeg
- 1735 operas
- Operas by multiple composers
- French-language opera stubs