Rosine

Rosine is an opera in three acts with a score by Gossec, a libretto by Gersain , and choreography by Maximilien and Pierre-Gabriel Gardel. It had a stormy premiere at the Palais-Royal on 14 July 1786, but its remaining five representations were undisturbed because the more objectionable features of the composition had been removed. Yet even these changes did not prevent it from being dropped from the repertory after its sixth billing on 11 August 1786. At the start of the opera, Germond…