Les Martyrs

Les Martyrs was an opera in four acts with a score by Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, choreography by Jean Coralli, and a libretto by Adolphe Nourrit and Eugène Scribe, which was based upon Donizetti’s Poliuto and Pierre Corneille ’s Polveucte. This French version by the composer was more developed than the work he did for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples because he added to his first composition the overture, the ballet airs, nearly all the first act, and certain portions of acts 2, 3, 4. On the…