Les Huguenots is a grand opera in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer, a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Emile Deschamps, and choreography by Filippo Taglioni (see eighteenth-century volume for Taglioni). Deschamps’ greatest effort was expended on the fourth act, for which Adolphe Nourrit suggested the conclusion. It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 29 February 1836; it enjoyed its 500th billing at the Opéra on 4 April 1876, and it was retained in the repertory until…