The Dragoons of Villars Overture [Alf:36-10100123]

The Dragoons of Villars (Les dragons de Villars) is an opİra-comique in three acts by Aimİ Maillart. The story of the opera was said to have been borrowed from La Petite Fadette by Georges Sand, updated by the librettists to the time of Louis XIV. It was premiered by the Thİ˘tre Lyrique in Paris on 19 September 1856. Les dragons de Villars is set in a French mountain village near the frontier with Savoy towards the close of the war in the Cevennes in 1704. This version for concert band is scored by Clifford P. Barnes.