La Fronde

La Fronde was an opera in five acts with music by Louis Niedermeyer and a libretto by Jules Lacroix and Auguste Maquet. Lucian Petipa created the choreography, and the sets were done by Cambon and Thierry (a. 1), Despléchin (a. 2, 3), Nolau and Rubé (a. 4), and Martin (a. 5). The work was produced for the first time at the Imperial Academy of Music on 1 May 1853, but it did not prove very successful despite an impressive score and a gallery of convincing characters marred only by the distortion…