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This radio opera cycle parodies different operatic styles. Four of its five short one-act chamber operas survive: La fille d'opéra, Le bel ambitieux, La pauvre Eugénie, and Monsieur Petit Pois achète un château.
A ballet created for New York City Ballet to a 1952 collaborative score by seven composers, based on a theme from André Campra’s 1717 opera Camille, reine des Volsques. The article gives no further account of the ballet's action.
The story of the ballet is somewhat nonsensical: The new couple have a wedding breakfast on Bastille Day (July 14) at a table on one of the platforms of the famous tower. A guest makes a pompous speech. When a humpbacked photographer bids everyone to "watch the birdie," it appears that a telegraph office suddenly springs into existence on the platform. A lion comes in and eats one of the guests for breakfast and a strange figure called "a child of the future" appears and kills everybody. Nevertheless, the ballet concludes with the end of the wedding. When asked what the ballet was about, Cocteau replied: "Sunday vacuity; human beastliness, ready-made expressions, disassociation of ideas from flesh and bone, ferocity of childhood, the miraculous poetry of everyday life." On 29 July 1923, in a letter, Francis Poulenc described the work as "toujours de la merde... hormis l'Ouverture d'Auric" ("yet more shit... apart from Auric's Overture").
This radio opera cycle parodies different operatic styles. Four of its five short one-act chamber operas survive: La fille d'opéra, Le bel ambitieux, La pauvre Eugénie, and Monsieur Petit Pois achète un château.
A ballet created for New York City Ballet to a 1952 collaborative score by seven composers, based on a theme from André Campra’s 1717 opera Camille, reine des Volsques. The article gives no further account of the ballet's action.
The story of the ballet is somewhat nonsensical: The new couple have a wedding breakfast on Bastille Day (July 14) at a table on one of the platforms of the famous tower. A guest makes a pompous speech. When a humpbacked photographer bids everyone to "watch the birdie," it appears that a telegraph office suddenly springs into existence on the platform. A lion comes in and eats one of the guests for breakfast and a strange figure called "a child of the future" appears and kills everybody. Nevertheless, the ballet concludes with the end of the wedding. When asked what the ballet was about, Cocteau replied: "Sunday vacuity; human beastliness, ready-made expressions, disassociation of ideas from flesh and bone, ferocity of childhood, the miraculous poetry of everyday life." On 29 July 1923, in a letter, Francis Poulenc described the work as "toujours de la merde... hormis l'Ouverture d'Auric" ("yet more shit... apart from Auric's Overture").