For the opera by Mozart, see Ascanio in Alba. For the magician, see Arturo de Ascanio.
Ascanio
grand opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
The composer in 1900, photographed by Pierre Petit
Librettist
Louis Gallet
Language
French
Based on
Benvenuto Cellini by Paul Meurice
Premiere
21 March 1890 (1890-03-21)
Académie Nationale de Musique, Paris
Ascanio is a grand opera in five acts and seven tableaux by composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The opera's French libretto, by Louis Gallet, is based on the 1852 play Benvenuto Cellini by French playwright Paul Meurice which was in turn based on the 1843 historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The name was changed to Ascanio to avoid confusion with the Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini. The opera premiered on March 21, 1890, at the Académie Nationale de Musique in Paris,[1] in costumes designed by Charles Bianchini and sets by Jean-Baptiste Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat (acts I; II, scene 2; and III), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon and Marcel Jambon (act II, scene 1).
^Hugh Macdonald (2001). "Ascanio". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
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