Louise

opera by Charpentier

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In opera: Later opera in France
…day, as was Gustave Charpentier’s Louise (1900; libretto by the composer). The latter has remained in opera house repertories because of its loving, romanticized portrait of bohemian Paris, the sentiment and surface allure, and the popularity of Louise’s hymn to love, “Depuis le jour” (“Since the Day”).
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