Les Six: Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (Complete ballet) (1921)

Les Six: Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, ballet in one act with choreography by Börlin, libretto by Cocteau, music by Auric, Milhaud, Tailleferre, Honegger, and Poulenc, set by Irène Lagut and costumes by J. Hugo. Premiered 18 June 1921 by the Ballets Suédois at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris with C. Ari, J. Figoni, and K. Vahlander. The ballet, a farce, is set on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower where a hunchbacked photographer tries to take pictures of a wedding party. Although L. Durey was n