La Cloche du Rhin

La Cloche du Rhin is an opera in three acts with a score by Samuel Rousseau and a libretto by G. Montorgueil and P.-B. Gheusi. It had its world premiere at the National Academy of Music on 8 June 1898 in a production by Lapissida with sets by Amable , and costumes by Charles Bianchini . The opera opens with the German people gathered together to pray to Herta for victory in the coming struggle against th Christians. Herman confesses his exasperation over the constant praying for bloody…