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Si j'étais roi (1852)

“Si j'étais roi” by Adolphe Adam

If I Were King, Wenn ich König wär’

Premiere / date of written: 4 September 1852

It was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique (Théâtre-Historique, Boulevard du Temple) on 4 September 1852, opening with a dual cast to allow performance on successive evenings (it made up half of all performances at the Théâtre Lyrique in the last four months of the year and reached over 170 performances in its first ten years).

Libretti

# Language Authors
1 French Adolphe d'Ennery, Jules-Henri Brésil
2 German

original libretto
line-by-line of the original libretto

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