Les Deux Salem

Les Deux Salem was billed as a fairy-tale opera in a single act with a score by Louis-Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, a libretto by Paulin de Lespinasse , and choreography by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel (see eighteenth-century volume for Gardel). It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 12 July 1824, and it was composed in a single act with sets by Pierre Cicéri. The curtain rises on the opera to disclose the interior of a grotto cluttered with instruments and equipment used in physics…