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La dame blanche (French pronunciation: [la dam blɑ̃ʃ], The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu.The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels Guy Mannering (1815), The Monastery (1820), and The Abbot (1820). [1]
La Dame Blanche (French; lit. ' The White Lady ') was the codename for an underground intelligence network that operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I.It was named after a German legend that foretold the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty would be signaled by the appearance of a woman in white.
J. A. MacCulloch believes Dames Blanches are one of the recharacterizations of pre-Christian female goddesses, and suggested their name Dame may have derived from the ancient guardian goddesses known as the Matres, by looking at old inscriptions to guardian goddesses, specifically inscriptions to "the Dominæ, who watched over the home, perhaps became the Dames of mediæval folk-lore."
Dame Blanche or La Dame Blanche (French for "White Lady") may refer to: Dame blanche (dessert), comprising ice cream, whipped cream, and molten chocolate; Dame Blanche (resistance), an underground network in German-occupied Belgium during World War I; Dames blanches, female spirits or supernatural beings in French folklore and mythology
Mainstays of the repertory at the Opéra-Comique during its history have included the following works which have each been performed more than 1,000 times by the company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Le chalet, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, La fille du régiment, Lakmé, Manon, Mignon, Les noces de Jeannette, Le pré aux clercs, Tosca, La bohème ...
Les troqueurs (1753), La dame blanche (1825), Carmen (1875), Lakmé (1883) Philidor, Monsigny, Grétry, Boieldieu, Auber, [4] Opéra comique en vaudeville: French: alternative name for comédie en vaudeville: Opera eroica: Italian: 17th/18th/19th century genre which translates as "heroic opera". It mixed serious and romantic drama with ...
Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (13 March 1753 – 23 June 1821), was the daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and Princess Maria Teresa d'Este. At the death of her brother, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe , she became the wealthiest heiress in France prior to the French Revolution .
Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (18 June 1755 – 22 September 1821), also known as Madame Dugazon, was a French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer.. Born in Berlin as the daughter of a dancing master at the court of Frederick II of Prussia, she returned to Paris with her parents in 1765.