DELIBES: Le Roi l’a dit*

DELIBES: Le Roi l’a dit* 24 May. Paris, O.C. Text by E. Gondinet. Three acts. After some 12 operettas, this was Delibes’s first attempt at comic opera on a more ambitious scale. Very successful in Paris and abroad. Given at: ANTWERP 18 August 1873 (in French). VIENNA, K.O. 20 April 1874 (in German, translated by A. Schirmer ); O. 20 September 1882. CARLSRUHE 9 September 1874 (in German). PRAGUE September 1874 (in German) and 9 October 1874 (in Czech, translated by E. Züngel). RIGA 1876 (in…