Olympie

Olympie , also spelled Olimpie, is a lyric tragedy in three acts with a score by Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini (see eighteenth-century volume for Spontini). Its libretto was written by the team of Joseph-Marie-Armand-Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, whose name is often written Briffaut. Pierre-Gabriel Gardel created its choreography (see eighteenth-century volume for Gardel). It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 22 December 1819, although the libretto records that…