L’Oriflamme

L’Oriflamme was billed as an opera in a single act with music by Méhul , Ferdinand Paër , Henri-Montan Berton , and Kreutzer. Etienne and Baour-Lormian wrote the libretto, and Pierre-Gabriel Gardel was responsible for its ballets. It had its premiere on 1 February 1814 at the Imperial Academy of Music in Paris, and the program on which it was given with Oedipe à Colone drew the surprisingly high sum of 10,763 francs 20 sous. Yet it did not continue to prove profitable, and it had to be dropped…