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The Maid of Artois
Opera by Michael William Balfe
Maria Malibran, the first singer of the title role, for whom Balfe wrote the opera
LibrettistAlfred Bunn
LanguageEnglish
Based onManon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
Premiere
27 May 1836 (1836-05-27)
Drury Lane Theatre, London

The Maid of Artois is an opera by Michael William Balfe, written in 1836 to a libretto by Alfred Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, who based his work on Eugène Scribe's stage version of Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut.

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