Les Mystères d’Isis

Les Mystères d’Isis was billed as an opera in four acts with a score by Lachnith and a libretto by Morel de Chédeville . This work is in fact a very poorly composed version or adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, but it had its supporters in its day. It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 23 August 1801, and it enjoyed 56 performances between 1801 and 1806. It was not mounted in 1807, but it was revived for another eight representations in 1808 and 1809. Its third revival in 1812 saw it…