Performance History
La dame blanche was first performed on 10 December 1825 by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. It was a major success and became a standby of the 19th-century operatic repertory in France and Germany. By 1862, the Opéra-Comique had given more than 1,000 performances of the opera. Its popularity began to diminish towards the very end of the 19th-century and performances since have been rare. The opera was revived in Paris in 1996 by conductor Marc Minkowski. A few different recording of the opera have been made (see below).
The overture was put together from Boieldieu's themes by his student Adolphe Adam.
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