Espana

Espana is a ballet in a single act by Jane Catulle-Mendès with music by Emmanuel Chabrier especially arranged by Albert Wolff. The choreography was elaborated by Mlle Rosita Mauri and Léo Staats. R. Pinchon created the costumes. It was performed for the first time at the National Academy of Music in Paris on 3 May 1911. The ballet opens on a village square. It is very hot, and the carnaval performers are asleep in their wagons. Young Sylvaine and Sylvain enter chasing butterflies and eating the…