Le Villi
| Le Villi | |
|---|---|
| Opera–ballet by Giacomo Puccini | |
Original 1884 advertisement in Gazzetta Musicale di Milano | |
| Librettist | Ferdinando Fontana |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr's short story "Les Willis" |
| Premiere | |
Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera–ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story "Les Willis" by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Vila, also used in the ballet Giselle. The opera, in its original one-act version, premiered at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme, on 31 May 1884.
A performance typically lasts 64 minutes.