Les Joyaux de la Madone

Les Joyaux de la Madone , originally entitled I Gioielli della Madonna, was billed as “scenes of popular Neapolitan life” in three acts with a score by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and a libretto by C. Zangarini and E. Golisciani . The work had its world premiere in Berlin at the Kurfürstenoper on 2 December 1911 in a German version by Liebstockl. It was produced in Chicago, New York, and London in 1912, but it was not brought to the Garnier Palace until 12 September 1913. The French version of René…