Sapho (Gounod)
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Sapho was the first opera composed by Charles Gounod. He wrote it, to a libretto by Émile Augier, at the prompting of the singer Pauline Viardot, who took the title role. The story of the opera is based on legends of the Greek poetess Sappho, her love for Phaon and her suicide. The opera was premiered at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opéra on 16 April 1851, to indifferent acclaim. A later revision of the opera, presented by the Paris Opéra at the Palais Garnier in 1884, had little more success.
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