Sainte-Claire

Sainte-Claire was an opera in three acts based upon a Russian legend. His Royal Higness Ernest II, duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, composed the score, and its libretto was the work of Mme Charlotte Birch, translated into French by the Belgian poet Gustave Louis Oppelt . Joseph Mazilier created its choreography. It had its premiere at the Opéra on 27 September 1855, but it was not well received by the public and had to be dropped after its ninth performance on 5 November 1855. The opera begins in a…