(Donizetti, Gaetano; Les martyrs, 2nd version [de Poliuto]; grand opéra, 4 acts; text by Scribe; Paris, Opéra, 10 April 1840)

(Donizetti reworked and expanded the Poliuto score as Les martyrs, in four acts, with a text by Scribe; more than three-quarters of the music for the French work comes from the Italian original ... added an extensive new overture, the requisite ballet "divertissement" and a concertato finale)