Aristippe

Aristippe is a lyric comedy in two acts with music by Kreutzer and words by Pierre Giraud and Leclerq. It had been reduced to one act on orders from the government and then restored to its original form of two acts for its premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 24 May 1808. It was quite successful and was billed at the Opéra for 23 successive years after its first representation. Yet it was billed on only 79 dates in this 1808-30 interval because it was mounted on fewer than four programs…