Les Jeux floraux

Les Jeux floraux was an opera in three acts with a score by Pamphile-Léopold Aimon and a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly that had its premire at the Montansier opera house on 16 November 1818. Although the work by Aimon dealt with a subject inspired by the Middle Ages, it failed to please romantic audiences, and it had to be dropped from the repertory after its seventh presentation on 8 January 1819. The setting is Toulouse at the start of the fourteenth century, where the daughter of count…