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currentmusicology-4918	Hibberd, Sarah	Review of Marian Smith. 2001. Ballet and Opera in the Age of “Giselle.” Princeton: Princeton University Press	2002	9	.pdf	application/pdf	4303	177	55	The grow­ ing disenchantment with narrative ballet sparked hostile reviews reminis­ cent of those written about melodramas and vaudevilles. Indeed, ballet was often more popular than opera.2 Tellingly, Meyerbeer's first grand opera, Robert le diable (1831) has been remembered above all for its ballet divertissement in Act 3, in which a group of de­ bauched nuns lure the hero into taking a sacred branch.	cache/currentmusicology-4918.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-4918.txt