Dante et Béatrice

Dante et Béatrice is an 1890 opera in four acts by Benjamin Godard to a libretto by Édouard Blau which premièred at the Opéra-Comique, Théâtre de la Ville, May 13 Paris.[1] In Godard's opera Dante is not as a famous poet, but a young man implicated in political and love intrigues in his quest for Beatrice.[2]

Following a concert performance in Munich in 2016, the work was revived on stage at the Grand Théâtre Massenet, Saint-Étienne in March 2019 with Sophie Marin-Degor as Béatrice and Paul Gaugler as Dante, conducted by Mihhail Gerts.[3]

References
  1. Robert Ignatius Letellier Opéra-Comique: A Sourcebook 2010 1443821683-Page 351 "GODARD. (1849-1895). Dante et Béatrice Drame lyrique en quatre actes. Librettist: Édouard Blau. First performance: Opéra-Comique (Châtelet), 13 May 1890. It was perhaps with some audacity that the librettist presented the great Florentine poet as the hero of a lyric work, and he has put on stage a young and infatuated Dante. He has used his right to license as a dramatic poet, even if in the process he has overlooked the marriage of Beatrice Portinari with Simeone Bardi, and of Dante with Gemma, with whom the poet had seven children. "
  2. Maria Ann Roglieri Dante and Music: Musical Adaptations of the Commedia 2001 "Benjamin Godard's Dante et Beatrice, like Carrer's opera, is a fantasy. Godard's work also features a full-blown romance between Dante and Beatrice but includes a slightly more coherent and comprehensive treatment of Dante's text"
  3. Gérard Condé. Le Paradis, c'est les autres. Diapason, No.679 May 2019, p68.
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