Le Cheval de bronze

Le Cheval de bronze was an opera ballet in four acts with music by Daniel Auber, a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and choreography by Lucien Petipa. It had its premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 21 September 1857 and enjoyed a score of performances before it was dropped from the repertory on 22 November 1858. It had been quite successful at the Opéra-Comique, but the recitatives added to it to make it acceptable to the Opéra slowed its pace, and the public regretted the loss of the…