The Spider’s Feast

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The Spider’s Feast is a French ballet-pantomime by Albert Roussel that vividly depicts the miniature world of insects in a garden.

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instanceOf ballet
ballet-pantomime
orchestral suite
basedOn scenario by Gilbert de Voisins
composer Albert Roussel NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
creator Albert Roussel NERFINISHED
depicts garden
insects
featuresCharacter butterflies
dung beetles
mayfly
praying mantis
spider
firstPerformanceYear 1913
form one-act ballet
genre ballet
pantomime
hasAdaptation concert suite
hasChoreographicType ballet-pantomime
hasComposerNationality French
hasInstrumentation full orchestra
hasPart finale
prelude
various insect dances
hasTheme life and death in the insect world
nature observed at close range
predation
intendedFor stage performance
isAmong Albert Roussel’s early major works
movementType suite extracted from the ballet
notableFor delicate and colorful orchestration
vivid orchestral depiction of insects
orchestration orchestra
originalLanguage French
period early 20th century
premieredAt Théâtre des Arts, Paris NERFINISHED
premiereDate 1913
premiereLocation Paris NERFINISHED
scenarist Gilbert de Voisins NERFINISHED
setting garden
style early 20th-century French music
subjectMatter miniature world of insects
titleInFrench Le Festin de l’araignée NERFINISHED
workNumber Op. 17

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Le festin de l’araignée titleTranslation The Spider’s Feast