La Reine de Chypre

La Reine de Chypre was an opera in five acts with a libretto by Jules Saint-Georges and a score by Jacques Halévy. It had its premiere at the Royal Academy of Music in the rue Le Peletier on 22 December 1841. Joseph Mazilier was responsible for its choreography. It was a popular work largely on account of its moving music and the spectacles afforded by its production numbers; it was billed on 118 dates at the Le Peletier theatre before this structure was destroyed by fire in 1873 . It enjoyed…