Tabarin

Tabarin was an opera in two acts with a score by Emile Pessard and a libretto by Paul Ferrier. It had its world premiere at the Garnier Palace on 12 January 1885 in a Pedro Gailhard production with a divertissement by Louis Mérante (see eighteenth-century volume for divertissement). J.-B. Lavastre (a. 1) and the team of Rubé , Chapéron , and Marcel Jambon (a. 2) provided its sets, and Eugène Lacoste designed its costumes. The composition was derived from the play of the same title that M…