La Source

La Source is a ballet in three acts and four tableaux with a book by Charles Nuitter and Charles-Victor-Arthur Saint-Léon. Léon Minkus and Léo Delibes supplied its score with Minkus providing the music for the first and fourth tableaux, while Delibes performed the same service for the other two tableaux. The sets were designed by two teams of artists: Rubé and Chaperon (tabl. 3) and Despléchin and Lavastre (tabl. 1, 2, 4). It had its world premiere at the Imperial Theatre of the Opéra in Paris…