Le Bal masqué

Le Bal masqué is the title given to the ballet in Daniel Auber’s Gustave III , when this segment of the opera is performed separately. It was produced apart from its parent work for the first time on 27 April 1834 with choreography by Filippo Taglioni (see eighteenth-century volume for Taglioni). It became very popular in its own right, and it was billed at the theatre in the rue Le Peletier and at the Garnier Palace on 69 dates during the nineteenth century. It was produced for the last time…