Les Bacchantes

Les Bacchantes was billed as a ballet in two acts and three tableaux based upon Euripides with a score by Alfred Bruneau and words by its composer in conjunction with Félix Naquet . It had its world premiere at the Opéra in Paris on 30 September 1912 with sets by Mouveau and costumes by Pinchon . Yvan Clustine did its choreography. The ballet is set in a public square adjacent to the temple of Cérès in Thebes, where a procession of the priests and priestesses of this goddess stops in…