Richard Coeur de Lion (play) Richard Coeur de Lion (play) Richard Coeur de Lion: An historical romance is a 1786 semi-opera with an English text by John Burgoyne set to music by Thomas Linley the Elder. It was first staged at Drury Lane Theatre in October 1786. It was a translation of Michel-Jean Sedaine's opera "Richard Coeur-de-lion" about the life of the English Monarch Richard I with the ending significantly changed. The work was a major success and ran for 43 performances and was revived seven times before the end of the century. By contrast a rival version staged at the Covent Garden Theatre at
Richard I. Cohen the international editorial board of the "Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust", published in 1990 in tandem Hebrew- and English-language editions by Yad Vashem. Cohen's 1998 book "Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe" explores art by and about Jews, in the context of European Jewish social history, as well as art history, and encompasses both high art and popular visual culture; he produced this work in the course of a 15-year collaboration with fellow Hebrew University historian Ezra Mendelsohn (1940-2015) in efforts to encourage research on the arts and modern Jewish society. Richard I. Cohen Richard I. (Yerachmiel) Cohen (born