Is Daphnis et Chloe a ballet?

Is Daphnis et Chloe a ballet?

Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet in one act with three parts (scenes) by Maurice Ravel described as a “symphonie chorégraphique” (choreographic symphony). It was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes on 8 June 1912.

When was Daphnis and Chloe composed?

ballet music …the French composer Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912), which the composer defined as a “poème choréographique,” and The Three-cornered Hat (1919) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. Distinctive original scores for ballet continued usually to be the outcome of specific commissions.

Where does Daphnis and Chloe take place?

Greek isle of Lesbos
It is set on the Greek isle of Lesbos, where scholars assume the author to have lived. Its style is rhetorical and pastoral; its shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but the author imparts human interest to this idealized world.