Siberia

Siberia was billed at the Opéra in Paris as a lyric drama in three acts with music by Umberto Giordano and a libretto by Luigi Illica. It had been given its world premiere at La Scala in Milan on 19 November 1903, and it had been billed at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre in the French capital on 4 March 1905, when an Italian troupe had appeared in it with a cast headed by Mme A. Pinto and M. A. Bassi . It was then brought to the Opéra on 9 June 1911 in a French translation by Paul Milliet . Paul…