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The Bals Publics at the Paris Opera in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
The Bals publics at the Paris Opera in the Eighteenth Century. By Richard Semmens. (Dance and Music no. 13.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2004. [viii, 216 p. ISBN 1576470342. $54.] Bibliography, index.
Initiated under the Regent, Philippe II d'Orleans, in 1716 and staged in the same theater where the Academie Royale de Musique held its performances, the bals de l'Opera occupied a central position in the cultural life of Paris until the Revolution. They also played an important part in the eighteenth-century shift in center of gravity from Versailles to Paris and from private princely pleasures to public performance for a paying audience of mixed social levels. ...
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