Dante et Béatrice
Music by Benjamin Godard · libretto by Édouard Blau · premiered 1890 · at Opéra-Comique
Dante et Béatrice is an 1890 opera in four acts by Benjamin Godard to a libretto by Édouard Blau which premièred at the Opéra-Comique, Théâtre de la Ville, May 13 Paris. In Godard's opera Dante is not as a famous poet, but a young man implicated in political and love intrigues in his quest for Beatrice. Following a concert performance in Munich in 2016, the work was revived on stage at the Grand Théâtre Massenet, Saint-Étienne in March 2019 with Sophie Marin-Degor as Béatrice and Paul Gaugler as Dante, conducted by Mihhail Gerts.
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About the Composer
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 1849 – 10 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d'Oise.
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