Le Page inconstant
Le Page inconstant was originally a ballet that Jean Bercher Dauberval had produced at Bordeaux in 1787, and it was billed subsequently in Paris at the Porte Saint-Martin Theatre (see eighteenth-century volume for Dauberval). Dauberval had used the intrigue and the major scenes of Le Mariage de Figaro as the basis for his choreography, and Jean Louis Aumer reworked Dauberval’s ballet and had François Habeneck arrange music by different composers for its premiere at the Opéra on 18 December 1823…