Nemea

Nemea was a pantomime-ballet in two acts by the Russian composer Léon Minkus, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and L. Halévy choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, and sets by Despléchin and Lavastre . It was a version in two acts of Saint-Léon’s fantastic ballet in four acts that had been given in the Bolshoi Theatre of St. Petersburg on 13 February 1864 and entitled Fiammetta. Néméa had its world premiere in a production by Emile Perrin at the Imperial Theatre of the Opéra on 11 July 1864, and…