Fantasio (Smyth)
| Fantasio | |
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| Opera by Ethel Smyth | |
Ethel Smyth in 1891 | |
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| Language | German |
| Based on | Fantasio, play by Alfred de Musset |
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Fantasio is an opera in two acts composed by Ethel Smyth. The German-language libretto was written by Smyth and Henry Bennet Brewster. Described in the libretto as a phantastische Comödie (fantastic comedy), it was based on Alfred de Musset's 1834 play of the same name. The opera premiered at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar on 24 May 1898.