Ascanio

Ascanio was an opera in five acts and seven tableaux that had its world premiere in a Pierre Gailhard production at the Opéra on 21 March 1890. Camille Saint-Saëns composed its score, and the libretto was the work of Louis Gallet, who based his text on a play entitled Benvenuto Cellini that Paul Meurice and Auguste Vacquerie had written for the Porte Saint-Martin theatre in 1852. Joseph Hansen provided its choreography. Its sets were designed by the teams of Lavastre and Carpazat (tabl. 1, 2…