Daphnis and Chloe is a Greek pastoral novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of second-century Hellenistic romance writer Longus.
Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Pierre Cortot
Pedro Weingärtner, Brazilian, 1891
Daphnis et Chloe, oil on canvas by Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit
A nineteenth-century painting by the Swiss-French painter Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre depicting a scene from Daphnis and Chloe
Daphnis et Chloé is a 1912 ballet and orchestral concert work, subtitled symphonie chorégraphique, for orchestra and wordless chorus by Maurice Ravel. It is in three main sections, or parties, and a d
Daphnis and Chloe
…Offenbach in 1860 completed a one-act operetta based on the ancient novel Maurice Ravel wrote what he called a symphonie chorégraphique bearing the title Daphnis et Chloé in 1912 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; its choreographer that year was Michel Fokine; at nearly sixty minutes, it is the composer's longest…
Set design by Léon Bakst for the world premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, Paris 1912.
Michel Fokine, Daphnis et Chloé, circa 1910