Fantasio (Smyth)

Fantasio
Opera by Ethel Smyth
Ethel Smyth in 1891
Librettist
  • Ethel Smyth
  • Henry Bennet Brewster
LanguageGerman
Based onFantasio, play
by Alfred de Musset
Premiere
24 May 1898 (1898-05-24)

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.