![]() The story concerns mysterious goings on in 18th century Scotland involving the missing heir of the house of Avenel, a dastardly steward looking to seize the ancestral castle on the moors, a hidden fortune in gold and a mysterious ghostly spirit “The White Lady” or “La Dame Blanche” who guards over the fortunes of the Avenel family.īy the end of the 19th century, the work had become much rarer even in France and the title was only kept alive in the 20th century by distinguished recordings of the showy tenor solos – notably by Fritz Wunderlich, Nicolai Gedda and Juan-Diego Flórez. ![]() Boïeldieu was working from a libretto by the prolific Eugène Scribe who cobbled together a lighthearted romantic romp with supernatural and gothic elements from no fewer than five novels by Sir Walter Scott. ![]() François-Adrien Boïeldieu’s 1825 opéra-comique La dame blanche was a huge hit in its day – by 1862 it racked up over 1,000 performances at the Opéra-Comique. ![]()
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