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Set design for Act V of the première of Dimitri, an 1876 French-language grand opera in five acts by Victorin de Joncières. Set to a libretto by Henri de Bornier and Paul Armand Silvestre after Schiller's incomplete play Demetrius, itself a story based on the life of the Russian pretender False Dmitriy I (reigned 1605–1606), the opera was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre National Lyrique. Dvořák's 1881 opera Dimitrij was also based on Schiller's play.Art credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden