La Caravane du Caire

La Caravane du Caire is an opera in three acts rehearsed under the titles of La Foire du Caire and L’Heureux Esclavage. The idea for this highly successful work was allegedly suggested to its authors by the count de Provence, whom posterity remembers as Louis XVIII . Grétry did the music, Morel de Chédeville wrote the libretto, while Pierre-Gabriel Gardel managed the ballet. It had its world premiere at Paris on 15 January 1784; it was revived every season between 1785 and 1791. After…