Amadis de Grèce

Amadis de Grèce is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by André-Cardinal Destouches and a libretto by Houdard de La Motte. It had its premiere on 26 March 1699. The royal musicians played it before the dauphin and Court at Fontainebleau in the “grande galerie des cerfs” this same year on 24 October according to the Journal de l’Opéra and perhaps a week earlier according to the Mercure. Miles Moreau and Journet appeared opposite Thévenard and Du Mesny in its initial…