Coppélia

Coppélia is a ballet in two acts and three tableaux with a scenario by Charles Nuitter and Charles Saint-Léon set to music by Léo Delibes and using choreography by Saint-Léon until Joseph Hansen (1896), Ambroisiny (1916), and Albert Aveline (1936) provided it with new choreography for subsequent revivals. It had its world premiere at the Le Peletier opera house on 25 May 1870, and it reached its 300th and 400th performances at the Opéra on 22 April 1911 and 12 August 1920, respectively. The…