Alcide

Alcide is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue for which Jean-Galbert de Campistron did the libretto and the team of Louis de Lully and Marin Marais wrote the score. The poem was criticized for being poorly composed, but the work was revived as La Mort d’Hercule on 23 June 1705 and under the third title of La Mort d’Alcide on 18 August 1716. It was returned to the stage of the Palais-Royal for the last time on 15 October 1744. The first run of Alcide extended from 3 February to 15 May…