Le médecin malgré lui (opera)

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Operas by Charles Gounod
Sapho (1851, rev. 1884) La nonne sanglante (1854) Le médecin malgré lui (1858) Faust (1859, revised 1869) Philémon et Baucis (1860, revised 1876) La colombe (1860, revised 1866) La reine de Saba (1862) Mireille (1864) Roméo et Juliette (1867) Cinq-Mars (1877) Maître Pierre (incomplete, 1877-8)
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Le médecin malgré lui (The Doctor in spite of himself) is an opera in three acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Moliére's play, also entitled Le médecin malgré lui.

[edit] Performance history

It premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris on January 15, 1858.

[edit] Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, January 15, 1858 (Conductor: - )
Sganarelle, a woodcutter	baritone
Léandre, Lucinde's lover	tenor
Martine, Sganarelle's wife	mezzo-soprano
Jacqueline, Lucas' wife	mezzo-soprano
Lucinde, Géronte's daughter	soprano
Géronte, a wealthy bourgeois	bass
Valère, Géronte's valet	baritone
Lucas, Géronte's servant	tenor