Ali-Baba

Ali-Baba was an opera in four acts and a prologue with a score by Luigi Cherubini and words by Eugène Scribe and Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier Méles. Jean Coralli was the choreographer (see eighteenth-century volume for Cherubini). The work was written for the Opéra-Comique originally, but its authors revised it and took it to the Opéra for its premiere on 22 July 1833. It was not successful, probably because it was largely a reworking of an old 1793 composition entitled Koukourgi by Duveyrier’s…