La Toison d’or

La Toison d’or is a lyric tragedy in three acts with a score by Vogel and a libretto by Desriaux . It had its premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 29 August 1786 and had eight billings at the Opéra before it was withdrawn on 7 November 1786 after returning only 2,166 livres to the box office. Vogel’s death is entered in the unpublished Journal de l’Opéra on 28 April 1788, and the company may have decided to revive La Toison d’or in his memory because it was brought back to the stage for…