Aricie

Aricie is catalogued as a ballet or an opéra-ballet in five entrées and a prologue for which La Coste composed the music and the abbé Jean Pic wrote the libretto. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 9 June 1697 and may have been billed until August of the same year. The work was never very popular, and it was never returned to the stage after its first and only run in the summer of 1697. The prologue presents the satyr Marsias asserting to three Muses that he sings more beautifully than…