Virginie

Virginie was a lyric tragedy in three acts with a score by Henri-Montan Berton and a libretto by Marc-Antoine Desaugiers (see eighteenth-century volume for Berton and Desaugiers). It had its premiere at the recently constructed opera house in the rue Le Peletier on 11 June 1823, and it was mounted on 18 dates by the end of the year. After ten additional billings in 1824 (7) and 1825 (3), it was revived again on 15 October 1827 for its 39th performance. Romantic audiences had tired of classical…