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Esmeralda

Music by Arthur Goring Thomas · premiered 1883 · at The Theatre Royal

Esmeralda is an opera in four acts composed by Arthur Goring Thomas to an English-language libretto by Theo Marzials and Alberto Randegger based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. It premiered in London on 26 March 1883 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Georgina Burns in the title role and Barton McGuckin as her lover, Phoebus.

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About the Composer

Arthur Goring Thomas is the composer of record for this opera.

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