Brézilia

Brézilia was a ballet in a single act with a score by count de Gallenberg. Its book and choreography were created by Filippo Taglioni, and its sets were designed by Philastre and Cambon (see eighteenth-century volume for Taglioni). It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 8 April 1835, when it was included on a program given for the benefit of Mlle Marie Taglioni . The curtain rises on the ballet to disclose a rampart of high rocks surrounding an isolated forest in America. It is dawn, and…