Le Seducteur au Village

Le Seducteur au Village was a pantomine ballet in two acts that was reduced to a single act after its fourth representation. Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer composed its score, and François Decombe Albert created its scenario and choreography (see eighteenth-century volume for Albert). It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 3 June 1818 with scenery by Pierre Cicéri . The ballet opens in a picturesque corner of Switzerland, where Claire’s house and Count Alphonse’s château are seen against a…