Bellérophon

Bellérophon is the second and last work composed by Thomas Corneille and Jean-Baptiste Lully after the latter had been obliged to dismiss Philippe Quinault for offending Mme de Montespan in Isis Bernard de Fontenelle also played a substantial rôle in the writing of the libretto, although it was not until 1741 that he published a letter in the Journal des Savants to claim that he had had an active part in its composition. The subject of Bellérophon had already been used by Quinault in a…