Mam'zelle Angot

Ballet in one act with choreography and libretto by Massine, music by Lecocq (arr. Richard Mohaupt), and designs by Mstislav Doboujinsky. Premiered 10 Oct. 1943 (as Mademoiselle Angot) by Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, with Massine, Nora Kaye, André Eglevsky, and Rosella Hightower. The ballet is based on Charles Lecocq's 1872 comic opera La Fille de Madame Angot. In it all the characters are in love with someone who loves someone else; in the end Mam'zelle Angot finds that she does indeed love the man who loves her. It was revived by Massine for Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1947, with new music arranged by Gordon Jacob and designs by André Derain, and a cast that included Fonteyn, Shearer, Grant, and Somes. Australian Ballet took it into its repertoire in 1971.