Le Diable amoureux

Le Diable amoureux was presented as a pantomime ballet in three acts and eight tableaux with music by François Benoist (a. 1, a. 3) and Henri Reber (a. 2), a libretto by Jules-Henri de Saint-Georges, and choreography by Joseph Mazilier. Philastre and Cambon created sets for it that elicited almost unreserved praise from the press. Mazilier’s work had its premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 23 September 1840, and it proved to be a reasonably popular composition. It was mounted in its…