Ballet de la Nuit

The title page of the Ballet de la Nuit

Ballet de la Nuit (Ballet of the Night) is an ballet by Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Jean de Cambefort, Michel Lambert and probably Jean-Baptiste Lully. It is ballet de cour, premièred February 23, 1653 at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Louvre. The ballet was the subject of the Oxford Dance Symposium in 2004, and there is an extensive study of the work by a group of scholars.^[1]

Costumes

Costumes from La Nuit
The costume of Apollon, performed by Louis XIV.  The costume of the lute player from La Nuit  The costume of the soldier from La Nuit

Movie

There is one scene from La Nuit in the historical movie Le Roi danse (scene used in this movie is from the end of ballet, called The sun rise, fr. Le Roi représentant le soleils levant )

Notes

References

• Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp (2010). Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. New York: Pendragon.

See also

• Louis XIV of France
• List of compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully
• French ballet

External links

Catalogue entries for the livret of the ballet and 129 illustrations of costumes and scenery attributed to Henry Gissey (c. 1621-1673):Waddesdon Manor