François Villon

François Villon was an opera in a single act with a score by Edmond Membrée and a libretto by François Got of the Comédie-Française. It had its premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 20 April 1857 and managed to survive for 18 presentations before it was dropped from the repertory on 14 October 1857. Its principal weakness lay in its libretto, which depended too heavily upon a false view of Villon’s character. The opera opens in Tours in 1473 on the feast day of Saint Louis. Captain…