A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Huguenots, Les

by George Grove

HUGUENOTS, LES. Opera in 5 acts; words by Scribe and Deschamps, music by Meyerbeer. Produced at the Académie Feb. 29, 1836; in London, first by a German company, at Covent Garden, April 20, 1842; in Italian at Covent Garden as 'Gli Ugonotti,' July 20, 1848; in English at the Surrey Theatre, Aug. 16, 1849. Like 'William Tell,' the opera is always greatly shortened in performance.

For a remarkable criticism by Schumann see the Neue Zeitschrift, Sept. 5, 1837, and Gesammelte Schriften, ii. 220.

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