Hellé

Hellé was an opera in four acts with a score by Alphonse Duvernoy and a libretto by Camille Du Locle and Charles Nuitter. Joseph Hansen established its choreography, and Bianchini designed its costumes. Its sets were created by Amable (a. 1), Jambon and Bailly (a. 2), Carpezat (a. 3), Rubé and Moisson (a. 4). It had its world premiere at the Garnier Palace on 24 April 1896. The curtain rises on the opera to present an ancient and half-ruined temple on a hill by the sea, where priestesses led by…