La Farandole

La Farandole was a ballet in three acts with a score by Théodore Dubois and a scenario by the team of Philippe Gille and Arnold Mortier . Louis Mérante created its choreography. It has its world premiere at the Garnier Palace on 14 December 1883. The action of the ballet begins on a farm near Arles in the eighteenth century with a group of young girls working on the harvest. The farmer Rémy leaves for the city (I, 1) before Olivier can ask him for permission to marry his daughter Vivette…