Le Sicilien ou l’amour peintre

Le Sicilien ou l’amour peintre was billed as a pantomine ballet in a single act with a libretto by Anatole Petit , music by Ferdinand Sor and Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, and choreography by Petit. It was mounted for the first time at the Royal Academy of Music on 11 June 1827, but it met with little success and had to be dropped after its sixth performance on 3 August 1827 despite a temporary revival of interest in it on account of Marie Taglioni ’s debut in it on 23 July 1827. The ballet…