La Statue

La Statue was an opera in three acts and five tableaux with a score by Louis-Etienne-Ernest Reyer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel-Florentin Carré. It had its world premiere at the Théâtre Lyrique in the Boulevard du Temple on 11 April 1861, and it was revived in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 20 April 1878 after being mounted at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels during early 1865. It was brought to the Garnier Palace in a production by Lapissida with choreography by Joseph…