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Lazare is a 1902 French-language drame lyrique/oratorio by Alfred Bruneau to an 1896 poem by Émile Zola.

Recording

• Louis-Jacques Rondeleux as Lazarus, Jean Giraudeau as Jesus, Giselle Desmoutiers as Lazarus' wife, Claudine Collart as the child, Helene Bouvier as Lazarus' mother, Orchestre Radio-Symphonique de Paris, Eugène Bigot 1957

References

1. Joseph McLellan (18 October 1986). "Lazare Rises Again". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 February 2023. Review of world premiere live performance.
2. Lawson A. Carter, Zola and the Theater (1977) ISBN 9780837196596 p. 200: "in Zola's conception Lazarus prefers the peace of death to the suffering of life. Appearing with the Christ are Lazarus' mother, ... not possible to say whether this particular passage of the novel preceded the play, or vice versa. Lazare was the first libretto which Zola wrote for Bruneau, ante-dating Messidor. Bruneau recognized at once the difficulty of finding a producer ..."

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Operas	Le Rêve (1891) L'attaque du moulin (1893) Messidor (1897) L'Ouragan (1901) Lazare (posthumously 1954) L'Enfant roi (1905) Naïs Micoulin (1907) Les Quatre journées (1916) Le Jardin du Paris (1923) Angelo (1928)
Cantata	Geneviève de Paris
Category:Operas by Alfred Bruneau

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