Gismonda
Sign in to saveGismonda is a Greek-set melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered on October 31, 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. In 1918, the play was adapted for the now lost film ''Love's Conquest. In 1918/1919, it was adapted into the opera Gismonda'' by Henry Février.
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- Author
- Henry Février
- First published
- 1919
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Operas -- Vocal scores with piano
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Author
- Victorien Sardou
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Alphonse Mucha
- Collection
- National Gallery Prague
- Location
- Trade Fair Palace
- Image
- Mucha - Gismonda.jpg
- Height
- 198
- Width
- 67
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- form of creative work
- play
- inventory number
- O 14503
- Commons category
- Gismonda
- location of first performance
- Théâtre de la Renaissance
- inception
- 1894-01-01
- title
- Gismonda
- language of work or name
- French
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- Act IV
- Production
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Gismonda is a Greek-set melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered on October 31, 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. In 1918, the play was adapted for the now lost film ''Love's Conquest. In 1918/1919, it was adapted into the opera Gismonda'' by Henry Février.
==Plot== ===Act I=== thumb|260px|Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda (1894) thumb|260px|Photograph of C. C. van Schoonhoven as Zaccaria (1899) Act I starts in 1451 in Athens at the foot of the Acropolis.
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