LOCKE: Psyche

LOCKE: Psyche 9 March. London , Dorset Gardens Text by T. Shadwell (founded on a French tragédie–ballet by Molière, Pierre Corneille and Quinault, produced at Paris in 1671). Prologue, 5 acts and epilogue. The 1675 libretto is called “A Tragedy”; the music was published in the same year as “The English Opera ; or the Vocal Musick in Psyche, with the Instrumental therein Intermix’d”. In the preface Shadwell states: “And by his excellent Composition, that long known able and approved Master of…