Salammbô (Rachmaninoff)
Projected opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salammbô was a projected opera conceived by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff around 1906. It was to be based on Salammbô, a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. The idea was long thought about, but Rachmaninoff was unable to find a suitable librettist and aborted the idea when his wife and daughter fell ill.[1]
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Projected opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff | |
Based on | Salammbô by Flaubert |
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