La Filleule des fées

La Filleule des fées was billed as a grand fairy ballet in three acts, seven tableaux, and a prologue. The libretto was the work of Jules Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Perrot; its score was composed by Adolphe Adam and Clemenceau de Saint-Julien. It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 8 October 1849 with sets by Cambon , Despléchin , and Thierry . The curtain rises in the prologue to disclose a large room in a farmhouse with a hill and the village church visible through an open door…