Gismonda

Gismonda
Alphonse Mucha poster for Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt (1894)
Written by	Victorien Sardou
Characters	Gismonda Marcello Almerio Zaccaria Franco Acciaiuoli Leonardo De Tocco Gregoras Drakos Agnello Acciaiuoli Francesco Leonarda
Date premiered	October 31, 1894 (1894-10-31)
Place premiered	Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris
Original language	French
Genre	Melodrama
Setting	15th Century Athens during Florentine rule

Gismonda is a Greek-set melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered on October 31, 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance.^[1] In 1918, the play was adapted for the now lost film Love's Conquest.^[2] In 1918/1919, it was adapted into the opera Gismonda by Henry Février.^[3]