Vert-Vert

Vert-Vert was billed as a pantomine ballet in three acts with music by Ernest Deldevez and Jean-Baptiste Tolbecque, a collaboration made possible by the orchestra conductor Roqueplan ’s insistance that his protégé Tolbecque, be given an opportunity to display his talents in this work already started by Deldevez. The scenario was supplied by Adolphe Leuven, who had previously written a vaudeville with this same title based upon Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset ’s eighteenth-century poem. The…