Betty

Betty was a pantomime ballet in two acts with a score by Ambroise Thomas and a book by Joseph Mazilier. The latter choreographed his own scenario, and the sets were created by Pierre Cicéri, Rubé , Despléchin , Diéterle , Séchan , Philastre , and Cambon . It was produced for the first time at the Royal Academy of Music on 10 July 1846. The work was suggested by Alexandre Duval ’s La Jeunesse de Henri IV . The ballet transpires in and around London toward the end of the reign of Charles I, and…