Proserpine

Proserpine is a pantomime ballet in three acts with a score by Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer and choreography by Pierre Gardel, who also created its scenario (see eighteenth-century volume for Gardel). It had its world premiere at the Opera on 18 February 1818 with stage decorations by Pieere Cicéri . The ballet begins in Sicily near Mount Etna, where Proserpine, her companion Ciane, and a troupe of nymphs are looking for Cérès, mother of Proserpine. Vénus appears in the background and asks…