Les Dieux rivaux ou les fêtes de Cythère

Les Dieux rivaux ou les fêtes de Cythère was an opera-ballet in a single act written for the program celebrating the marriage of the duke de Berry. It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 21 June 1816. Its music was composed by Gasparo Spontini, Louis-Lue Persuis, Henri Berton, Rodolphe and Kreutzer (see eighteenth-century volume for Spontini, Persuis, Berton, and Kreutzer). Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut wrote its libretto, and Gardel created its choreography. The curtain…