Monna Vanna

Monna Vanna was a lyric drama in four acts and five tableaux by Maurice Maeterlinck for which Henri Février composed the score. It had its world premiere at the Garnier Palace on 10 January 1909 in a production by Paul Stuart for which Rochette and Landrin designed the sets. Pinchon created the costumes. The opera begins in the palace of Guido Colonna in Pisa, where the starving citizens are calling for Guido’s death, and his officers are reporting that their military supplies are exhausted…