Weaver soon became a specialist in comic roles and created the burlesque Tavern Bilkers (1702).

Following his own travels to the Far East, he wrote Siang-Sin, a ballet-pantomime created for a Chinese spring festival in 1924.

This ballet-pantomime, originally composed on an argument by Gilbert de Voisins, is an animal extravaganza: a spider captures the insects in its web.

At this time Meyerbeer created his first stage composition, the ballet- pantomime Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen, produced on March 26, 1810 at Berlin’s Royal Theatre.

At this time Meyerbeer created his first stage composition, the ballet- pantomime Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen, produced on March 26, 1810 at Berlin’s Royal Theatre.

To conclude this concert dedicated to Béla Bartók, Pierre Boulez conducts the Berlin Philharmonic to perform The Miraculous Mandarin, a work composed in 1918-1919.

In 1918, Honegger was commissioned to write the score for a mimed ballet, Le Dit des Jeux du monde based on a poem by Paul Méral and with scenery and costumes by Guy Fauconnet.

In 1918, Honegger was commissioned to write the score for a mimed ballet, Le Dit des Jeux du monde based on a poem by Paul Méral and with scenery and costumes by Guy Fauconnet.

Mr Tigg was quite lost in admiration of this noble trait in his friend’s character; as he made known to Mr Pinch in a neat little ballet of action, spontaneously invented for the purpose.

In 1918, Honegger was commissioned to write the score for a mimed ballet, Le Dit des Jeux du monde based on a poem by Paul Méral and with scenery and costumes by Guy Fauconnet.

As for the music side, before Mozart, two other musicians try to assess the literary theme of Don Juan: Gluck in a ballet in 1761 based on Molière’s work, and Gazzaniga in an opera created in the same year as Mozart's version, in 1787.