Poster by Louis d'Ausbourg for Le Tribut de Zamora
Le tribut de Zamora is a grand opera in four acts by Charles Gounod, to a libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Jules Brésil set in Moorish Spain shortly after the Battle of Zamora in 939 CE. The work was premiered at the Paris Opera's Palais Garnier on 1 April 1881.
It was Gounod's last work for the stage. The libretto was offered to Gounod after negotiations with Giuseppe Verdi stalled. The premiere was a success, Hermosa's patriotic "Debout! enfants de l'Ibérie!" (sung by Gabrielle Krauss) being enthusiastically encored, and praise being showered on the magnificent costumes by Eugène Lacoste and the four settings designed by Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 1 and 4), Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 2), Antoine Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat (act 3). The piece ran for 34 performances.[1]
Twentieth century criticism is less kind, calling it "musty...too reminiscent of his earlier work"[2] or dismissing it as an exercise in spagnuolismo (Hispanicism).[3]
^Edmond Stoullig [fr], Édouard Noël [fr]. "Académie Nationale de Musique", Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique, year 7, p. 37
^Harding 1973 p. 202
^Huebner 1990 p. 218
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