The Poisoned Kiss

The Poisoned Kiss
Opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams
LibrettistEvelyn Sharp
LanguageEnglish
Based onRichard Garnett's The Poison Maid and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter
Premiere
12 June 1936 (1936-06-12)
Cambridge Arts Theatre

The Poisoned Kiss, or The Empress and the Necromancer is an opera in three acts by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The libretto, by Evelyn Sharp, is based on Richard Garnett's The Poison Maid and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 short story Rappaccini's Daughter.

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