page_title: Françoise de Rimini
section_title: Roles
hierarchical_section_title: Françoise de Rimini / Roles
caption_attribution_description: Caricature in Le Rire, n°66. The composer Ambroise Thomas (seated in the armchair behind the conductor) is depicted at a rehearsal for concert of his work which included the Prologue to his 1882 opera Françoise de Rimini. Lautrec made the sketch in January 1896. It was one of the last depictions of Thomas who died the following month. See: Masson, Georges (2011). Bicentenaire Ambroise Thomas: «Françoise de Rimini», son ultime opéra, p. 72. Cercle Lyrique de Metz
context_page_description: Françoise de Rimini is an opera in four acts with a prologue and an epilogue. The last opera composed by Ambroise Thomas, it sets a French libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier which is based on an episode from Dante's Divine Comedy. The opera was first performed by the Paris Opera on 14 April 1882 but fell into relative obscurity until its revival in 2011.
caption: Thomas in a January 1896 sketch by Toulouse-Lautrec which shows him seated behind the conductor listening to the rehearsal of a concert where the opera's Prologue was performed.
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