Don Quichotte
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Don Quichotte is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for the first Paris production, at the Gaîté-Lyrique in 1910
Feodor Chaliapin as Don Quichotte by Alexandre Jacovleff
Lucien Fugère as Sancho, Paris 1910.
Don Quixote
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Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in Early Modern Spanish and published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern
Don Quichotte
…the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Massenet's comédie héroïque, like many dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The immediate inspiration was Le chevalier de la longue figure, a play by the poet Jacques Le Lorrain first performed in Paris…
Don Quixote de la Mancha (first edition, 1605, printed by Juan de la Cuesta)
Don Quixote goes mad from his reading of books of chivalry. Engraving by Gustave Doré.
Illustration by Gustave Doré depicting the famous windmill scene
Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré