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        • Jules Massenet

        • La Cigale (1904)
          (Ballet in two acts by Henri Cain)

        • Heugel (World)
        • 2+pic2+ca22/4331/timp.perc/hp/str. In the wings: 2 musicians.
        • 43 min

        Programme Note

        La Cigale premiere took place on 4 February 1904 at Paris Opéra Comique. The story is a retelling of the fable The Grasshopper and the Ant. In the argument by Cain, the grasshopper being a cicada and the ant referred as La Pauvrette (the poor little one). La Pauvrette, after being taken in, fed and feted by La Cigale, is rude and heartless when the situation is reversed. Cigale is left to die in the snow at the close of the ballet.