La Servante justifiée

La Servante justifiée rehearsed under the title of La Fête de Mathurine, is a ballet in a single act and 23 scenes with a score by Rodolphe Kreutzer and a scenario and choreography by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel (see eighteenth-century volume for Kreutzer and Gardel), who described his ballet as “a village ballet.” Degotti provided its sets. It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music in 30 September 1818. The ballet is set in a mountain hamlet where the villagers and a group of musicians…