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Poster for the world premiere of Massenet's opera Le Mage on 16 March 1891 at the Paris Opéra. The libretto by Jean Richepin recounts the fraught love story of Zarastra, a Persian general and magus, and Anahita, a captive Touranian queen. The French tenor Edmond Vergnet sang the title role at the premiere.