Le Connétable de Clisson

Le Connétable de Clisson is an opera in three acts with music by Porta , words by Aignan , and choreography by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel. It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 9 February 1804. The curtain rises on the opera to disclose Mme de Courcy’s château during the fourteenth century. The chorus is singing the praises of Clisson and expressing joy over his defeat of the English. Alix is flattered to be the fiancee of this gallant and glorious leader, and his squire Albéric enters to…