L’Orgie

L’Orgie was a pantomime-ballet in three acts with a score by Michel Carafa, a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and choreography by Jean Coralli. It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 18 July 1831 and enjoyed 30 performances in 1831-32 before it was dropped from the repertory on 1 June 1832. The curtain rises in the first act of L’Orgie on an inn in Séville, where four young noblemen buy wine for everybody but irritate some of the peasants by dancing with the young girls of the neighborhood (I…