La Magicienne

La Magicienne was an opera in five acts with music by Jacques François Halévy, a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, and choreography by Joseph Mazilier. It had its wrold premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music in Paris on 17 March 1858. The work was based upon the legend of Méluzine emanating from the province of Poitou and already had been made the subject of an opera entitled La Maga fulminata (1638) composed by the team of Benedetto Ferrari and Francesco Manelli . The action…