Françoise de Rimini

Françoise de Rimini was an opera in four acts, a prologue, and an epilogue with a score by Ambroise Thomas and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The choreography was created by Louis Mérante. The costumes were designed by Eugène Lacoste , and the sets were the work of the younger Lavastre (tabl. 1, 2), the elder Lavastre and Carpezat (tabl. 3), Daran (tabl. 4), Rubé and Chapéron (tabl. 5). The composition had its world premiere at the Opéra in Paris on 14 April 1882. The prologue of…