Robert Bruce

Robert Bruce was billed as an opera in three acts with a score by Gioacchino Rossini, a libretto by Alphonse Royer and Jean Vaëz, and choreography by Joseph Mazilier. Its scenery was created by Thierry (a. 1), Séchan , Diéterle , Despléchin (a. 2), Philastre and Cambon (a. 3). This work was not a separate effort by Rossini. It was a pastiche of the music he had done for other scores, and which Louis Niedermeyer unified around the text provided by the Royer-Vaëz team. He drew mostly upon…