Sophocle

Sophocle was offered as an opera in three acts, later reduced to two acts, which had a score by Fiocchi , a libretto by Morel de Chédeville , and choreography by the team of Pierre-Gabriel Gardel and Milon . It was given initially at the Tuileries on 2 December 1810 before Napoleon and his empress and was then mounted at the Imperial Academy of Music on 16 April 1811 (see seventeenth-century volume for Tuileries). It was a failure despite the ingenious idea upon which its libretto was based…