Le Casque et les colombes

Le Casque et les colombes is an opéra-ballet in a single act with a score by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, a scenario by Guillard and Collin d’Harville, and choreography by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet). It had its world premiere at the Théâtre de la République et des Arts on 7 November 1801. The work was created to celebrate the start of Anglo-French peace negotiations that were initiated in 1801 and concluded on 25 March 1802 with the treaty known as…