The Birthday of the
Infanta
![The Birthday of the Infanta](images/at0156_9s-th.jpg)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Birthday of the Infanta
Portland, ME: T.B. Mosher, 1905
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division (156.9)
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The ballet-pantomime, The Birthday of the Infanta, with
music by John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), was well received at
its world premiere in Chicago on December 23, 1919. Infanta was
presented again by the Chicago Opera in New York City on Febrary
23, 1920, at the Lexington Avenue Opera House. The basis for the
ballet was a short story of Oscar Wilde, about a the dwarf who
misunderstands the attention paid him by the royal Infanta. The
story was inspired by the court of Philip IV of seventeenth-century
Spain and the art of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velásquez.
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