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Jérusalem
- Opera in 4 acts, French.
- Libretto Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz
- French version of I Lombardi alla prima crociata with locations and characters changed to French ones.
- Time: 1095 and 1099 AD, during the First Crucade. Place: Toulouse (Act 1); Palestine, near Jerusalem (Acts 2 – 4).
- Premiere at Paris Opéra (in its former building of Salle Le Peletier), 26 November 1847
Tancred of Hauteville, the siege of Jerusalem by Émile Signol
- Characters:
- Gaston, Viscount of Béarn, tenor
- HP Gaston IV le Croisé, vicomte de Béarn
- Gilbert Duprez sang in the first premiere 26 Nov 1847
- Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
- Carlo Negrini ao. Milan 1850
- Leopoldo Signoretti
- José Carreras
- The Count of Toulouse, baritone
- HP Raymond IV, comte de Toulouse
- Charles Portheaute sang in the first premiere
- Renato Bruson
- Roger, the Count's brother, bass
- Adolphe-Joseph-Louis Alizard sang in the first premiere 26 Nov 1847
- Ruggero Raimondi
- Hélène, the Count's daughter, soprano
- HP Raymonde de Toulouse
- Mme Julian Van Gelder sang in the first premiere
- The Emir of Ramla, bass
- Raymond, Gaston's squire, tenor
- Jules Barbot sang in the first premiere 26 Nov 1847
- A Herald, bass
- Molinier sang in the first premiere 26 Nov 1847
- Gaston, Viscount of Béarn, tenor
- Choreographers:
- Lucien Petipa and Joseph Mazilier in the first premiere 26 Nov 1847
- Conductors:
- Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi himself conducted in the first premiere 26 Nov 1847
- Eugenio Cavallini
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Zubin Mehta
- Fabio Luisi (b. 1959)
Illustration of Act 3, scene 2 (1847) after the Paris world premiere.