Louise Miller

Louise Miller was billed as an opera in four acts with a score by Giuseppe Verdi and a libretto that was a translation by Benjamin Alaffre of the original Italian by Cammarano. The latter had based his composition upon the work by youthful Friedrich Schiller entitled Kabale und Liebe . The Italian opera had had its world premiere at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples on 8 December 1849, and the French version was produced for the first time at the Imperial Academy of Music on 2 February 1853. It…