Lalla-Roukh

[1] Lalla-Roukh had its world premiere on 12 May 1862 at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart) in Paris in a double bill with Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's Rose et Colas, a one-act mêlée d'ariettes.

[2] The mise en scène was by Ernest Mocker, the settings by Jean-Pierre Moynet, Charles Cambon, and Joseph Thierry, and the costumes by Jules Marre.

[4] It was translated into German and performed in cities such as Coburg (25 December 1862), Mainz (26 December 1862), Munich (16 March 1863), Vienna (22 April 1863), and Berlin (Meysels-Theater, 7 August 1865), and even translated into Hungarian (presented in Budapest, 31 January 1863), Polish (Warsaw, 8 March 1866), Swedish (Stockholm, 12 January 1870), Italian (Milan, Teatro Re, 7 September 1870), and Russian (St. Petersburg, 5 February 1884; Moscow, 10 February 1896).

Lalla-Roukh tells him that when they arrive at the palace, she will confess all to the King and refuse to marry him, preferring to live in a simple cottage in Kashmir with her true love.

[12] One of these, Mirza's couplets "Si vous ne savez plus charmer", also appears on the EMI boxed set Les Introuvables du Chant Français.

Poster by Célestin Nanteuil for the premiere of Lalla-Roukh
Emma Calvé as Lalla-Roukh, 1885
Lalla-Roukh (soprano), costume design for Lalla-Roukh (1870).
Set design for act 2 of Lalla-Roukh