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Colombe, dressed as a priestess and oracle of
Bacchus, tells the Queen of the Lanternois how she misses her husband. Panurge arrives, looking for his wife; Queen Baguenaude invites him to rest awhile and consult the oracle of Bacchus. Colombe prepares to assume the part of Sibyl, while Panurge offers
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Ribaude re-enters Panurge tries to flirt with her again, but is spurned by Ribaude who knows that he is married. Colombe sits at Pantagruel's table and makes confession to Panurge disguised as a monk, of all her transgressions. Panurge cannot contain his jealousy and tells her that he knows the
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At daybreak in the main courtyard of the Abbaye de Thélème, Thelemites and
Ribaude greet the morning. When the crowd has left, Panurge enters, pleased with such a congenial refuge and makes advances to Ribaude. Pantagruel arrives with his followers and Jean welcomes as an old friend, describing the
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Once everyone has entered the tavern, Colombe herself comes along and hears the voice of her husband; she explains that she feigned death to escape his drunken behaviour. She calls on him to come out and presents herself to him but he says that he does not recognize her. Enraged, Colombe is held by
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The Sibyl now enters and answers
Panurge's enquiries, saying that he will find his wife when he drinks less and stops beating her. Jean, Pantagruel and the followers next arrive by boat. Colombe, having taken off the disguise, joins her husband and calls for wine; the Queen reminds Panurge of his
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A large meal is prepared in the courtyard by the servants; instead of saying grace, Pantagruel only praises the vine. Panurge wonders whether he should remarry as he can't recall his former wife, and asks for counsel from the philosopher Brid'oye, the poet
Raminagrobis and the physician
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husband, who has fled to the Ile des
Lanternes. Colombe says that she will pursue him and leaves, while in a fury Panurge breaks everything at the tables.
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to make a sacrifice of a lamb. He rejects the price demanded and tosses the lamb into the sea, after which the shepherd and locals dive in to rescue it.
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in Paris on 25 April 1913, nearly a year after
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A crowd of townspeople have gathered outside the tavern of
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customs of the monastery, where there is no Lent and monks pray to Bacchus and nuns to Venus.
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Chorus: People of Paris, bourgeois, Thelemites, merchants, soldiers, Lanternois.
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oath. All raise their cups in rejoicing as the curtain falls.
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152:. It was first performed at the
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313:Angoulevent, "prince des sotz"
184:. Harding quotes a reaction of
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1147:Trois petites pièces montées
209:Premiere Cast, 25 April 1913
935:(arr. Leighton Lucas, 1974)
464:Dindenault, sheep merchant
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567:Casaglia, Gherardo (2005).
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326:Alcofibras, inn-keeper
211:(Conductor: A. Amalou)
100:25 April 1913
46:Poster for the premiere
16:Opera by Jules Massenet
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1210:French-language operas
1171:Rabelais and His World
29:Haulte farce musicale
1165:Beast with two backs
1131:The Monks of Thelema
1003:Cercle Funambulesque
750:Le portrait de Manon
648:List of compositions
1220:Operas set in Paris
932:L'histoire de Manon
383:Raminagrobis, poet
361:Rondilibis, doctor
254:Ribaude, Thélémite
229:Giovanni Martinelli
182:Patrick Fournillier
172:Performance history
154:Théâtre de la Gaîté
136:Georges Spitzmuller
111:Théâtre de la Gaîté
58:Georges Spitzmuller
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1115:Adaptations
978:Other works
718:Esclarmonde
554:Harding J.
518:Rondibilis.
470:L. Muratet
320:Éric Audoin
307:Maïna Doria
294:Lucy Arbell
280:, baritone
263:Zina Brozia
216:Pantagruel
206:Voice type
162:(1914) and
1194:Categories
1106:Picrochole
1074:Characters
986:Méditation
782:Grisélidis
774:Cendrillon
537:References
499:Mardi Gras
495:Les Halles
278:Dinh Gilly
145:Pantagruel
104:1913-04-25
84:Pantagruel
52:Librettist
897:La Vierge
873:Oratorios
854:Cléopâtre
694:Hérodiade
556:Massenet.
456:baritone
445:baritone
442:A herald
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412:baritone
399:baritone
386:baritone
375:baritone
329:baritone
316:baritone
159:Cléopâtre
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943:Concerto
798:Chérubin
601:at IMSLP
484:Synopsis
459:Guillot
426:Desrais
378:Lacombe
303:soprano
239:Panurge
224:baritone
190:Chabrier
168:(1922).
150:Rabelais
142:, after
132:libretto
96:Premiere
90:Rabelais
79:Based on
71:Language
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1139:Panurge
1134:(novel)
1101:Panurge
1096:Hurtaly
916:Ballets
846:Panurge
822:Bacchus
814:Thérèse
734:Werther
726:Le Mage
599:Panurge
591:Sources
571:Panurge
467:spoken
448:Bréfel
437:Lokner
415:Garrus
356:Delgal
345:Raveau
258:soprano
123:Panurge
113:, Paris
102: (
22:Panurge
1200:Operas
1126:(film)
952:(1902)
927:(1904)
924:Cigale
908:(1900)
900:(1880)
892:(1875)
884:(1873)
865:(1922)
862:Amadis
857:(1914)
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710:Le Cid
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662:Operas
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367:Godet
165:Amadis
74:French
766:Sapho
742:Thaïs
702:Manon
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508:Act 2
497:, on
489:Act 1
233:tenor
203:Role
196:Roles
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220:bass
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889:Ève
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