Almasis

Almasis is an opéra-ballet in a single act with a score by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer and a libretto by Moncrif (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet). It had its world premiere in the Petits Appartements theatre at Versailles on 26 February 1748, and it was offered to the Paris public for the first time at the Opéra on 28 August 1750. The brevity of the composition made it especially suitable for production with other works in spectacles coupés. Thus, it enjoyed its first and…