Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is a comedy-ballet about Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy middle-class merchant who longs to be accepted as a nobleman. He hires masters of music, dancing, fencing and philosophy, and buys fine clothes, yet his efforts only make him ridiculous. Flatterers and schemers happily take his money, while his practical wife and his daughter's love affair complicate his plans. The play mixes sharp social satire with music, dance and spectacle. It is a lively portrait of vanity and social ambition. This catalogue entry appears to be an operatic or musical edition of the play.