Jérusalem délivrée

Jérusalem délivrée is an opera in five acts with a score by Persuis and a libretto by Baour-Lormian. It had its premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 15 September 1812, but it was not very successful despite its lavish sets and costumes. It enjoyed 33 performances in 1812-15 before it was dropped from the repertory on 20 December 1815. The action of the opera starts on a plain before Jerusalem with Tancrède admitting to Roger his guilty love for Clorinde. He begins to hope that the…