LULLY: Les Festes de l’Amour et de Bacchus

LULLY: Les Festes de l’Amour et de Bacchus 15 November. Paris, O. Text by P. Quinault (in collaboration with Molière and I. de Benserade). Prologue and 3 acts. This pastorale was Lully’s first opera, being more or less a pasticcio made up from music of his earlier ballets (such as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Georges Dandin, and others). The performance took place at the Salle du Jeu de Paume de Bel-Air, in Rue de Vaugirard, after Cambert’s first theatre had been closed down earlier in the year…