Clair de lune (Fauré) Clair de lune (Fauré) "Clair de lune", ("Moonlight") Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine. The pianist Graham Johnson writes that it closes Fauré's second period and opens the doors into his third. Johnson notes that it is "for many people the quintessential French mélodie". The lyric is from Verlaine's early collection "Fêtes galantes" (1869). It inspired not only Fauré but Claude Debussy, who set it in 1881 and wrote a well known piano piece inspired by it in 1891. Fauré's 1887 setting is for voice and piano; in
Theatre de la Jeune Lune of the World"; "The Green Bird"<br> 2002: "Medea"; "Cosi fan Tutte"; "The Nuns"<br> 2003: "The Seagull"; "Carmen"; "Figaro"; "The Man Who Laughs"; "Circus of Tales"<br> 2004: "The Ballroom"; "The Golem"; "The Miser"; "Carmina Burana"<br> 2005: "Maria de Buenos Aires"; "Antigone"; "Lettice and Lovage"; "The Little Prince"; "Tartuffe"<br> 2006: "Amerika, or The Disappearance"; "Mefistofele"; "Tartuffe"; "The Miser"<br> 2007: "The Deception"; "Don Juan Giovanni"; "Figaro"<br> 2008: "Fishtank"; "Figaro" Theatre de la Jeune Lune The Theatre de la Jeune Lune was a celebrated theater company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company, in operation from 1978 to 2008, was known for its visually rich,