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Transit of Venus (opera)

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First performance
  
24 November 2007

Librettist
  
Maureen Hunter

Adapted from
  
Transit of Venus

Composer
  
Victor Davies

Language
  
English

Transit of Venus is an opera in three acts by Victor Davies. The English libretto is by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter based on her play of the same name first produced at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in November 1992.

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Performance history

The opera was first performed by Manitoba Opera on November 24, 2007.

Synopsis

The story is based on the expeditions of the 18th-century French astronomer, Guillaume le Gentil de la Galaisière. He attempted to record the transit of the planet Venus across the sun as a way of estimating the distance between the earth and the sun. Celeste, his fiancée, loves him at first but then turns to his assistant, Demarais.

References

Transit of Venus (opera) Wikipedia