Les Amours de Momus

Les Amours de Momus was the thirty-fifth title added to the repertory since the foundation of the Royal Academy of Music, but it was only the fifth composition offered to the public as a ballet or opéra-ballet in this period of two dozen years between 1672 and 1695. The decision to present a work featuring the dance might well have been fostered by the fact that the six previous works billed at the Palais-Royal had been lyric tragedies like Céphale et Procris and Médée, works that had never…