L’Amour à Cythère

L’Amour à Cythère is a pantomime ballet in two acts with music by Gaveaux and choreography by L.H.B. Henry Bonnachon . It had its premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 29 October 1805 but enjoyed only seven performances. It was dropped on 23 March 1806. The curtain rises on Cythère near the temple of Vénus, where shepherds are trying to weave garlands. The youths of the island are obviously indifferent to the maidens about them, and nature wears a hostile air. Three personifications…