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Le Mage
Le Mage
Credit: Alfredo Edel. Restoration by Adam Cuerden
Poster for the world premiere of Massenet's opera Le Mage on 16 March 1891 at the Paris Opéra. The libretto by Jean Richepin recounts the fraught love story of Zarastra, a Persian general and magus, and Anahita, a captive Touranian queen. The French tenor Edmond Vergnet sang the title role at the premiere.