Sapho

Sapho is a lyric tragedy in three acts with a score by Antoine Reicha and a libretto by the team of Hippolyte Cournol and Adolphe-Joseph-Simonis Empis. The work was given its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 16 December 1822 with decorations by Pierre Cicéri . The opera opens at night on the shores of Sicily before a ruined temple where pirates are waiting to plunder a ship in distress. The endangered vessel is heading for the beach through rough weather, and a band of fishermen…