Vertumne et Pomone

Vertumne et Pomone is a pantomime ballet in a single act with a score by Lefebvre and choreography by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel. It had its world premiere at the Tuileries on 4 January 1810, and it was mounted at the Imperial Academy of Music for the first time on 24 January 1810 (see seventeenth-century volume for the Tuileries). It was part of a benefit program for Lainé, but it never became popular and had to be dropped from the repertory after its fourth representation on 22 May 1810. The…