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Charles Gounod – La Nonne Sanglante

by neilhowson | Aug 4, 2013 | Opera Plots

Opera in five acts. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne, based on an episode in The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796). First performed at the Paris Opéra on 18 October 1854. Act 1 Bohemia in the eleventh century: the castle of Baron Moldaw There has...

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