Théodora

Théodora was offered to audiences as a musical drama in three acts and six tableaux with a score by Xavier Leroux and a libretto by Victorien Sardou and Paul Ferrier. It had its world premiere at the Monte Carlo opera house on 19 March 1907, and it was mounted subsequently on five occasions at the Opéra in Paris, where it was performed initially on 20 October 1910. Curiously enough, only its second act was ever staged at the Garnier Palace, and it was never given a place in the repertory at the…