Flore et Zéphire

Flore et Zéphire is a ballet in a single act with music by Frédéric-Marc-Antoine Venua and choreography by Charles Didelot. It was danced first in London on 7 July 1796, and it had its premiere at the Opéra in Paris on 12 December 1815 as a companion piece to Le Laboureur chinois. The ballet opens with Cléonise asleep in a grove. Zéphire descends from the sky and asks Cupid to make Chloris fall in love with him. Suddenly, however, he sees Cléonise, and he becomes interested in her. He awakens…