Adèle de Ponthieu

Adèle de Ponthieu is a lyric tragedy in three acts for which Pierre-Montan Berton and La Borde composed the score, with librettos in three acts and five acts written in 1772 and 1775 by Saint-Marc nearly twenty years after Adèle, comtesse de Ponthieu (1757) by Pierre-Antoine de La Place had been produced at the Comédie-Française. Saint-Marc’s work was not yet suited for the operatic stage, however, and it was not until six years later that Niccolò Piccinni’s score for his Adèle de Ponthieu was…