Antigone

Antigone was billed as a lyric opera in three acts with a score by Zingarelli and words by Marmontel. It had its premiere on 30 April 1790, and it was dropped from the repertory after its second representation on 4 May 1790, when it established some sort of record by returning only 594 livres 18 sous to the box office. The action of Antigone begins at Thebes in a cemetery, where Etéocle is buried. Euridice is scattering flowers on his tomb (I, 1), and Hémon insists that they will be unable to…