L’Apparition

L’Apparition was an opera in two acts and three tableaux with a score by François Benoist and a libretto by Germain Delavigne. It had its world premiere on 16 June 1848 at the Opéra, then called the Théâtre de la Nation. The opera opens in a grotto in Spain, where Béatrix is telling fortunes to a group of peasants. An impostor, she makes a pretense of calling her demons from hell, and, when she declares that she sees the fallen angel running toward her, the peasants scatter in fear (I, 1)…