Gretna-Green

Gretna-Green was a pantomimic ballet in a single act with music by Ernest Guiraud, a libretto by Charles Nuitter, and choreography by Louis Mérante. It had its world premiere at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra on 5 March 1873, but it did not arouse much enthusiasm among spectators, and it was dropped rom the repertory after its tenth performance. The ballet is set in Gretna-Green , a Scottish village where eloping couples seeking hasty marriages may wed without parental consent. The curtain…