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Messaline (Messalina) is an operatic tragédie lyrique in four acts by Isidore de Lara. The librettists were Paul Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand.
The opera premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 21 March 1899 where it was decorated by Cesare Ferri and received enthusiastically. Messaline was de Lara's most successful opera and subsequent productions were performed throughout Europe, including the first opera by an Englishman to be mounted at La Scala in 1901. Other notable performances include Covent Garden in 1899, Paris Opéra in 1903, Warsaw in 1904, and Cairo in 1907. The opera made its United States premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on 22 January 1902. The opera remained a regular part of the repertory, particularly in France, until 1943.
Usage examples of "messaline".
The Lords Acton and Messaline went to the palace to beg the King to reconsider, but they did not return.
Balinor and Fandwick held the left flank while Acton and Messaline commanded the right.
His voice was calm and steady as he spoke briefly to his runners, sending one scurrying to find Acton and Fandwick on the left flank, the other to Messaline and Ginnisson on the right.
A second rampway was lowered from the center of the defensive lines, and the tall figure of Messaline was seen to appear at the head of a second regiment of Legion soldiers who descended on foot onto the smoke-clouded grasslands.
The Trolls were driven back step by step as Balinor closed on the right and Messaline from the rear.
Ginnisson had been killed, Messaline was severely wounded, and hundreds of Southlanders had died holding the Outer Wall until all hope was gone.
He appeared in chains before the Khad, wearing a richly colored cloak of messaline and a yellow headdress.
Julia Graham, a rather stout, pleasant-faced young woman in pink messaline, bowed to Miriam.
My father was that Sebastian of Messaline whom I know you have heard of.
The greater nervous power planted in the female organ is demonstrated by the andromania to which some women are subject, and which makes them either Messalines or martyrs.