Le Cid
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Richelieu once effortlessly composed a 500-line insert for Corneille's verse drama, Le Cid, to replace a passage of the author's that Richelieu thought in bad taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
I continued my work on Le Cid wherever I happened to be, as the performances of Manon took me to the provincial theaters where they alternated it with H�rodiade both in France and abroad.
From My Recollections by Massenet, Jules
He has also created the parts of Carlo V., in Marchetti's "Don Giovanni d'Austria," and Don Diegue, in "Le Cid."
From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Lahee, Henry C.
"Le Cid" has apparently proved to the taste of the habitu�s of the Op�ra, and has been successfully performed on the Continent.
From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur
Certain it is that "Le Cid" was a distinct falling off after "Manon," and that "Le Mage," produced at the Grand Op�ra in 1891, was absolutely inferior to "Esclarmonde."
From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur
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