La Montagne noire

La Montagne noire was a lyric drama in four acts with words and music by Augusta Holmes. Its sets were designed by Marcel Jambon , and its costumes were created by Charles Bianchini . It had its world premiere in a production by Lapissida at the Garnier Palace on 8 February 1895. The curtain rises on the first act of the drama to disclose a heap of fortified ruins in Montenegro during the seventeenth century. Dara, Hélèna, and their companions are looking down from the dilapidated…