Lucifer

Lucifer, ballet in two parts by Guillaume Connesson, on a libretto by the composer, retains from the Book of Enoch angels cast down for having loved simple female mortals.

They were considered rebellious angels that Lucifer symbolises in the Christian tradition. The work is composed of many scenes : the crowning of the holder of light, the meeting, the judgement, the fall, blivion, etc. All these episodes, the choreography follows to the letter. Except during the epilogue xhen the man who discovered the emerald crown that Lucifer lost during the fall. Thus, we witness a symbolic representation of the birht of the first man, as stated in Genesis, who was the companion of Eve. He too was expelled from Paradise for disobedience ; he too was a bearer of light, as was the Prince of Darkness, because the day is nothing without night.

Thierry Malandain