Hellé

Hellé, a lyric tragedy in three acts with a libretto by Lemonnier and a score by Floquet, is not to be confused with Victor-Alphonse Duvernoy’s opera in four acts with the same title (see nineteenth-century volume for Duvernoy ). The former composition had its world premiere at the Opéra on 5 January 1779, while the latter work was produced at the Garnier theatre on 24 April 1896 (see nineteenth-century volume for the later Hellé). Floquet’s Hellé proved to be an almost complete failure, and it…