Alexandre et Roxane explained

Alexandre et Roxane was a two-act French language opera to be written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1778 in Paris.[1] [2] The opera never came to fruition, although it has been suggested that the music for Jean-Georges Noverre's ballet Les petits riens, K. Anh. 10/299b, also from 1778, was originally composed for the projected opera.

The subject of the libretto was Alexander the Great and his marriage to the Bactrian noble Roxana.

References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=l6I6BwTMJ3sC&pg=RA1-PA505 W. A. Mozart
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=ODjGyobktlQC&pg=PA386 Biographie W.A. Mozarts