La jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet (1866), from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Adenis, after the novel by Sir Walter Scott. Georges Bizet. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) is one of Walter Scotts novels. ... For the first Premier of Saskatchewan see Thomas Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (August 14, 1771 - September 21, 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe. ...

It received its first performance at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, on 26th December 1867. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... (Redirected from 26th December) December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Characters

• Henri (Henry) Smith, a blacksmith (tenor)
• Cathérine Glover (soprano)
• Simon Glover, her father, a glover (bass)
• Mab, queen of the gypsies (soprano)
• Ralph, Glover's apprentice (bass / baritone)
• Le Duc de Rothsay (Duke of Rothsay) (baritone / tenor)
• A Lord in his service (tenor)
• His Major-Domo (bass)

Recordings

• 1985 June Anderson - Cathérine Glover; Alfredo Kraus - Henri Smith; Gino Quilico - Le Duc de Rothsay; José van Dam - Ralph; Chœurs de Radio-France, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, cond. Georges Prêtre. EMI 747 559-8

• 1989 Barbara Hendricks - Cathérine Glover; John Aler - Henri Smith; Gino Quilico - Le Duc de Rothsay; Jean-Philippe Courtis - Ralph; Chœurs et Orchestre de Toulouse, cond. Michel Plasson. EMI 749 837-2