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Orfa: ballet des traineux, le cratère, metamorphose des plantes, la Walhalla.
- Title
- Orfa: ballet des traineux, le cratère, metamorphose des plantes, la Walhalla.
- Author
- Riou, Édouard, 1833-1900.
- Publication
- [Paris, 1857]
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- Description
- Wood engraving; 22.5 x 31.5 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Lower center: Ed. Riou.
- Legend: Scènes principales du ballet d'Orfa, à l'Académie impériale de musique.
- Newspaper cutting depicting four scenes from Mazilier's ballet Orfa, premiered at the Paris Opéra, Dec. 29, 1852, and revived for Amalia Ferraris, July, 1857.
- Upper left: ballet of the sleighs, set on a snowy Icelandic plain near Reykjavic, mount Hecla in the distance, the altar and statue of Loki, the god of fire, foreground right.
- Upper right: the palace of Loki in the heart of a mountain; a magnificent stairway leads to the crater.
- Lower left: the moment in the ballet in which Orfa restores to their natural shape the young girls whom Loki had transformed into rocks and flowers.
- Lower right: Valhalla and the stairway leading to Odin's throne.
- At center: Oval bust portrait of Ferraris, looking left.
- Call Number
- *MGZFA-19 Rio E Orf 1
- OCLC
- NYPY737081771-F
- Author
- Riou, Édouard, 1833-1900.
- Title
- Orfa: ballet des traineux, le cratère, metamorphose des plantes, la Walhalla.
- Imprint
- [Paris, 1857]
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 19th century.Ballet -- France -- 19th century.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFA-19 Rio E Orf 1