Louise-Angélique Bersin

The ballet "Les Fêtes d'Hébé" deals with those talents that are usually thematized at the Opéra and placed on stage in the service of love: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), the art of...

Les Fêtes d'Hébé or "Les Talents Lyriques" (1739) belong to the highly opulent genre of ballet opera, which was only common in 18th century courtly France. Rameau's "Indes Galantes" (1735) is often re...