Portal:Opera/Selected picture/60
Credit: A. Jannin; restored by Adam Cuerden
Cover to an 1867 vocal score of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Robinson Crusoé. Although loosely based on Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, the work owes more to British pantomime than to the book itself. Célestine Galli-Marié who sang the role of Man Friday in the premiere production would later to achieve fame as the first Carmen.