Joseph

Joseph was billed originally as a lyric drama in three acts with a score by Etienne-Nicolas Méhul and a libretto by Alexandre Duval (see eighteenth-century volume for Méhul). It had its world premiere at the Opéra-Comique in the Feydeau Theatre on 17 February 1807 with Jean Elleviou in the title-role (see eighteenth-century for Elleviou). It was revived at the Favart Theatre (1851) and the Théâtre Lyrique (1862) before it was given for the first time at the Garnier Palace on 26 May 1899, the…