comédie-ballet
comédie-ballet. Fr. musico-dramatic entertainment devised by Molière and Lully in late 17th cent. Their first collab. was in Le mariage forcé (1664), their last Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670). Mus. and dance were regarded as complementary to the main plot; the sub-plots were carried on in the intermèdes.
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