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The Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Royal Ballet of the Night), Ballet Royal de la Nuict in its original spelling and often referred to simply as the Ballet de la Nuit, is a ballet de cour with a libretto by Isaac de Benserade and music by Jean de Cambefort, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Michel Lambert and possibly others, which premiered on February 23 ...
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...
In 1653 Louis XIV created his first dance performance, “Ballet de la Nuit” or “ballet of the night.” Lasting for twelve hour straight (sundown to sunset) it depicted a metaphoric image of France in the “darkness” until Louis himself came to play the light that would save the country and bring hope to the people.
Le Ballet royal de la nuit ou Ballet de la nuit est un ballet de cour de Isaac de Benserade, musique de Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Jean de Cambefort, Michel Lambert et probablement Jean-Baptiste Lully, représenté pour la première fois à Paris, au Petit-Bourbon le 23 février 1653 1, 2 .
En février 1653, la reine mère Anne d’Autriche et le cardinal Mazarin assistèrent au triomphe de Louis XIV dans le Ballet royal de la Nuit, présenté au Petit-Bourbon. Le ballet fut ordonné par le sieur Clément, intendant du duc de Nemours, sur un livret de Benserade, avec des musiques de Cambefort, Boesset et Lambert, les ...
It has often been claimed that the Ballet de la Nuit celebrated Louis XIV’s coming of age 3 and the reassertion of royal authority after the defeat of the Fronde; thus the ballet was a glorification of a young king who saved France from civil war.
This thesis researches the ballet de cour spectacles of the seventeenth century French court, with a careful examination of the political and social importance of such spectacles in anticipation of reconstructing Louis XIV’s Ballet de la Nuit (Ballet of the Night), originally performed February 23, 1653 at the Louvre’s Salle de Petit Bourbon.
