Tribut de Zamora
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Description
After Polyeucte (1878), Gounod tackled the operatic genre for the last time in 1881 with what is probably his most ambitious work, Le Tribut de Zamora. The action takes place in ninth-century Spain - from Act Two onwards, on 'a picturesque site on the banks of the Guadalquivir before Crdoba'. Here Gounod - finally noted more for his neoclassical pastiches (Le Mdecin malgr lui and Cinq-Mars) and his ardent Romanticism (Faust and Romo et Juliette) - was given an opportunity to display his tale