Le Siège de Corinthe

Le Siège de Corinthe was billed as a lyric tragedy in three acts with music by Gioacchino Rossini, a libretto by Alexandre Soumet and Louis Balochi, choreography by Pierre Gardel, and sets by Pierre Cicéri (see eighteenth-century volume for Gardel). A ballet was added to it for its 17th representation on 21 February 1827. It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 9 October 1826, and it inspired great enthusiasm on this occasion, although this performance was marred by an…