Cythère assiégée

Cythère assiégée is a ballet in three acts with music by Gluck and words by Favart. Originally it had been a play in verse and prose composed by Favart and Fagan for the Saint-Laurent fair in 1744. Gluck was not inclined toward this sort of theatrical production, and he left Paris for Vienna before completing the score and thereby leaving Pierre-Montan Berton to supply the music for the divertissement of the last act. It is not surprising, therefore, that Cythére assiégée was not very popular…