Le Fanal

Le Fanal is an opera in two acts with a score by Adolphe Adam and a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. It had its world premiere at the Paris opera house on 24 December 1849. The work was seemingly designed to harmonize in places with the spirit of the Christmas season, but its spiritual appeal was not effective enough to sustain it, and it had to be dropped after 13 performances. The opening scenes of Le Fanal present the coastal pilot Valentin and his brother Martial, the keeper…