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- To celebrate his victory, Louis XIV commissioned a lavish ballet performance, which can be viewed as an allegory of the restoration of right and order, and as subjugation of the nobility to the victorious monarchy.
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The Ballet de la Nuit concerned the four Watches (veilles) of the night, beginning at 6 o'clock in the evening and ending at 6 o'clock in the morning: the first watch (sunset) lasted from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; the second, from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.; the third, from 12 a.m. to 3 a.m., and the fourth (sunrise), from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. With airs by Jean de ...
Louis XIV’s stage debut at age 15, Le Ballet de la Nuit, was a perfect example of the power games he would come to play. The performance, which consisted of 43 mini-ballets, lasted 12 hours and...
On the 23rd February 1653, the inveterate theatre-goer, Jean Loret, queued for three hours at the palace of Le Petit Bourbon and then sat through thirteen hours of the first performance of the Ballet de la Nuit.
This ballet de cour was a visual spectacle that combined music, dance, poetry, and allegory with elaborate staging and costumes. Such spectacles were first produced in France during the sixteenth century and involved the royal court not only as spectators but also as performers.
Jan 19, 2023 · His spectacular performance in this ballet marked the beginning of a sophisticated PR campaign, and gave a foretaste of his coronation in 1654 and the declaration in 1661 that he would govern alone. The Ballet Royal de la Nuit was performed for the first time on 23 February 1653 at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris. It was not a narrative ...
The Ballet royal de la nuit, performed for the first time the night of February 23, 1653, at the Petit-Bourbon in Paris, typified the multi-layered representation of the Night in court entertainments.
In February of 1653, Lully and Louis danced in the same ballet together for the first time. Coincidentally, it was in this ballet, Ballet de la nuit, that Louis XIV gained his nickname the "Sun King" from the role of the same name that he played so successfully (Harman and Milner 1959, 171).
