Moïse

Moïse was billed initially as an oratorio but came to be designated as an opera in four acts. Its music was by Gioacchino Rossini, and its libretto was essentially a French version by Louis Balochi and Victor Jouy of Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto , which had its world premiere at the San Carlo Theatre in 1818 and its Paris premiere at the Théâtre-Italien in 1822 (see eighteenth-century volume for Jouy). The French version of Rossini’s work had its first presentation at the Opéra on 26 March 1827…