Les_caprices_de_Marianne
Les caprices de Marianne
Opera by Henri Sauguet
Les caprices de Marianne is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954,[1] with the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire conducted by Louis de Froment with the Chorale Élisabeth Brasseur .
The opera was broadcast on French radio ten days after the premiere,[2] performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1956, with Graziella Sciutti, Jacques Jansen and Michel Sénéchal, and was recorded in 1959 (conducted by Manuel Rosenthal).[3] More recently, the opera has been staged by Compiègne (2006) and Dijon (2007).