Les cadeaux de Noël

Les cadeaux de Noël
Opera by Xavier Leroux
Cover of the piano/vocal score published by Éditions Choudens in 1915
LibrettistÉmile Fabre
Premiere
25 December 1915 (1915-12-25)
Salle Favart, Paris

Les cadeaux de Noël (The Christmas Gifts) is an opera in one act composed by Xavier Leroux to a French-language libretto by Émile Fabre. Described as a conte héroïque (heroic tale), it was premiered by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart Theatre in Paris on Christmas Day 1915. Its story of four children, whose parents had been killed by German soldiers but who nevertheless found hope in a seemingly bleak Christmas, had a particular resonance with French audiences in the midst of World War I. The opera was a great success in Paris, and subsequently performed in Italy, Monte Carlo and Latin America.

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