Christiane Eda-Pierre "The Magic Flute", and at the Palais Garnier in 1960, as "Lucia di Lammermoor". She sang there the standard lyric coloratura roles of the French and Italian repertories. She also won great acclaim in Mozart roles, especially Konstanze in "The Abduction from the Seraglio", as well as the Countess in "Le nozze di Figaro", Donna Anna and Elvira in "Don Giovanni", The Queen of the Night in "The Magic Flute". Eda-Pierre was much appreciated in French baroque opera, particularly the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau, including "Les Indes galantes", "Zoroastre", "Les Boréades" (taking part in the first modern performance in September
Il templario Il templario Il templario is an Italian-language opera by the German composer Otto Nicolai from a libretto written by Girolamo Maria Marini based on Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe". It has been noted that Nicolai's work for the opera stage, which followed the successful "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" ("The Merry Wives of Windsor)" (his only German opera), included three others, all of which were in Italian (two being "Gilippede ed Odoardo" and "Il proscritto") and all "are all firmly cast in the "bel canto" style, with gracefully flowing melodies in the manner of Bellini". Marini was a part-time poet when not