La Dame de Monsoreau

La Dame de Monsoreau was offered as a grand opera in a prologue and four acts divided into seven tableaux with a score by Gaston Salvayre and a libretto by Auguste Maquet. Mlle J. Subra provided the choreography, and Joseph Hansen directed the ballet at the beginning of the third act. Charles Bianchini designed its costumes. The work had its premiere at the Opéra on 30 January 1888 with Auguste Vianesi at the desk. Maquet based his opera on the play by the same title that he had written with…