Persée et Andromède

Persée et Andromède is a pantomimic ballet in three acts with a scenario by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel and a score by Etienne-Henri Méhul . The work was doubtless inspired by the spectacular scenes provided in the presentations of the Andromeda-Perseus story by Philippe Quinault and Marmontel (for Persée and Quinault, see seventeenth-century volume). Gardel’s work had its premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 8 June 1810, but it enjoyed only moderate success, and it was withdrawn after its…