La Fille mal gardée

La Fille mal gardée was a pantomime-ballet that Jean Bercher Dauberval had composed for the Grand Théâtre at Bordeaux in 1786 and that Jean Aumer returned to the larger stage of the Royal Academy of Music with considerable changes on 17 November 1828 (see eighteenth-century volume for Dauberval and Aumer). The music was the work of Aumer. The ballet was performed on a score of dates during the 1828-29 season, and it was withdrawn temporarily after its 36th presentation on 4 January 1833. It was…