Guido et Ginevra

Guido et Ginevra was an opera in five acts with a score by Jacques Halévy and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Joseph Mazilier was its choreographer. It had its first presentation at the Opéra on 5 March 1838 and was given on 32 occasions during the year of its premiere. It lost its appeal quickly and was billed at the Opéra on only a dozen dates between 1839 and 1841 and dropped after its performance on 15 October 1841. Subtitled La Peste de Florence, this somber work opens with the villagers of…