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Les Diamants de la Couronne: tags: [music]

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(The Crown Diamonds) is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the second Salle Favart in Paris on 6 March 1841.

The plot concerns a Portuguese princess, Catarina, who intrigues with bandits after she is forced to sell the crown diamonds of the title.

^{text: from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/}
^{sound file: by Auber, 1913, public domain in the U.S.}
^{https://archive.org/details/78_crown-diamonds-overture_d-f-e-auber_gbia0023230b}

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they let themselves be enchanted without scruple and with a twofold gratitude, when they listen to Salomé, by what it would have been impossible for them to admire in Les Diamants de la Couronne.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]