Le D'Annunzio, Gabriele 1863-1938 creator Debussy, Claude 1862-1918 text utu 2020 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien" by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a five-act musical mystery play written in 1911, with incidental music by Claude Debussy. The work follows Saint Sebastian through five symbolic scenes, from dancing on hot embers as lilies emerge, to confronting false gods and an infatuated emperor, to his ultimate martyrdom by arrows in Apollo's laurel grove. Designed as a vehicle for dancer Ida Rubinstein, the premiere sparked scandal when the Archbishop of Paris urged Catholics to boycott the production. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Without the music. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Martyre_de_saint_S%C3%A9bastien Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Martyre_de_Saint_S%C3%A9bastien Release date is 2020-05-30 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Laurent Vogel and the Distributed Proofreading team at DP-test Italia. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) Original publication data not identified Sebastian, Saint -- Drama PQ Original publication data not identified 11017841 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62281 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62281 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134433.0 62281