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Giuseppe Verdi

Les Vêpres siciliennes

Les vêpres siciliennes is a grand opera in five acts by the Italian romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi set to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier from their work Le duc d'Albe of 1838. Les vêpres followed immediately after Verdi's three great mid-career masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata of 1850 to 1853 and was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 13 June 1855.

Today the opera is performed both in the original French and (rather more frequently) in its post-1861 Italian version as I vespri siciliani. The story is based on a historical event, the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, using material drawn from the medieval Sicilian tract Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia.

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Movements

  1. Ouverture

Act I

  1. "Quel est ton nom?"

Acte I

  1. “Merci, jeunes amies” (Hélène)
  1. Acte II

Act III

  1. "Je n'en puis revenir"

Acte III

  1. Ballet: Le Printemps
  2. Ballet: L’Automne
  3. Ballet: L’Hiver
  4. Ballet: L’Été

Acte IV

  1. “O jour de peine et de souffrance” (Henri)

Acte V

  1. Les vêspres sicliennes: “La brise soufflé au loin” (Henri, Hélène)

Elsewhere

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