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La jacquerie

Music by Édouard Lalo · libretto by Édouard Blau · premiered 1895

La jacquerie is a four-act opera commenced by Édouard Lalo in 1889 to a libretto by Édouard Blau and Simone Arnaud, based on the 1828 play of the same name by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was unfinished when Lalo died in 1892, and it was completed by Arthur Coquard. The first performance was at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 9 March 1895.

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Édouard Lalo is the composer of record for this opera.

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