Macbeth

Macbeth was an opera in three acts with a libretto by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle , a score by Hippolyte Chélard, and choreography by Pierre Gardel (see eighteenth-century volume for Rouget de Lisle and Gardel). It had its premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 29 June 1827, but the work had little success despite the enthusiasm it was to inspire later in Munich and England: it had to be dropped from the repertory after its fifth performance on 13 July 1827. The tragedy opens in Macbeth’s…