Gustave III

Gustave III was offered as an historical opera in five acts with a score by Daniel Auber, a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and choreography by Filippo Taglioni (see eighteenth-century volume for Taglioni). It had its premiere on 27 February 1833 and was given in whole or in part on 156 dates by the end of 1850. It was produced in its entirety on 117 occasions during this interval with 63 stagings taking place in the first two years of its history at the Opéra. The work is subtitled Le Bal masqué…