Les Mohicans

Les Mohicans is a pantomime-ballet in two acts and 28 scenes with a score by Adolphe Adam. Antonio Guerra created its scenario and choreography. Lajarte makes no mention of this composition, but Gustave Chouquet notes that it was danced at the Opéra, and the unpublished Journal de l’Opéra records that it had its world premiere at the Académie Royale de Musique in the rue Le Peletier on 5 July 1837. Its stage decorations on this occasion were furnished by Devoir and Pourchet. The action of the…