Ipsiboé

Ipsiboé was the last of 33 operas for which Rodolphe Kreutzer wrote the music (see eighteenth-century volume for Kreutzer). The libretto for this opera in four acts was done by Alexandre Moline de Saint-Yon, and its dances were created by Pierre Gardel (see eighteenth-century volume for Gardel). Pierre Cicéri provided the sets for its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 31 March 1824, but it was not very successful. Its action was based on a popular contemporary novel by the…