Erostrate

Erostrate was an opera in two acts and three tableaux with a score by Ernest Reyer and a libretto by Joseph Méry and Emilien Pacini. It had its world premiere in Baden in a German translation on 21 August 1852, and it was billed initially in France at the Opéra on 16 October 1871. It returned only 1,817 francs, 16 centimes to the box office on the occasion of its second performance at the Paris theatre on 18 October 1871, and it was dropped from the repertory immediately. The opera begins in…