Ballet Royal de la Nuit
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Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Royal Ballet of the Night) is a ballet by Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Jean de Cambefort, Michel Lambert and probably Jean-Baptiste Lully. It is ballet de cour, premiered February 23, 1653 at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon. It took 13 hours to perform. 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]
Plot and music outline
The four acts of the ballet present the four periods, or watches, of the night. The story follows the activity of each watch. The first act is made up of the activities at the end of the day; the second, the entertainment of the evening; the third, the fantasies, freedoms and horrors of the night; and the fourth, the activities at dawn. The music has been described and analyzed recently.[2]
Costumes
Henri de Gissey (c. 1621–73), Dessinateur ordinaire du Cabinet du Roy, was in charge of dress design for the royal ballets. A collection of 10 scenic and 117 costume designs for the ballet made for Louis Hesselin (1602-1662) and attributed to Gissey are now at Waddesdon Manor. Another folio with 119 costume designs made for Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferté (1727-1794) is now in Paris at the Bibliothèque de l'Institut (MS 1004).
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Movie
There is one scene from Ballet Royal de 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 soleil levant )
Notes
- ↑ Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp, Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6, 2010
- ↑ Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp, Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6, 2010
References
- Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp (2010). Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. New York: Pendragon.
See also
External links
Waddesdon Manor the ballet livret, costumes and scenery