...Rachana Vajjhala Pierre Boulez, in his characteristic oracular fashion, once declared the ballet Jeux to be “a sort of Afternoon of a Faune in sports clothes.” In this article, I contend that his pithy observation—characterizing the difference between Faune and Jeux in sartorial terms—has diverted...

... of the Paris Opéra was based as much on ballet-pantomime as on opera, and until 1830 both genres would share the stage in a single evening. Although the aesthetic impulses behind grand opéra made programming new opera and ballet henceforth impossible, the state required the Opéra to maintain the balance...

...Inge Van Rij Relatively early in the composition of Les Troyens Berlioz declared his intention to include a " pas d'almées with the music and dancing exactly like the Bayadères' ballet which I saw here sixteen or seventeen years ago." Despite Berlioz's claim that he had "gone...