Figaro

Figaro, a pantomime ballet in three acts, was choreographed by Louis Duport and Jean-Baptiste Blache. The ballet had been created first by Blache, who had entitled his work Almaviva for production in Marseille. At the Opéra, it was called Le Barbier de Séville most frequently, but the newspapers of the time referred to it more often as Figaro, ou la Précaution inutile. The ballet was applauded in its day because it presented a dancer rehearsing before a mirror that is not a mirror, but a second…