Cadmus et Hermione

Cadmus et Hermione is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue. Its libretto was by Quinault, and its musical score was the work of Lully. It was the last of the two operatic works produced at the Bel-Air tennis court, and its authors presented their first active collaboration as a lyric tragedy to meet the need for an entirely new sort of composition to replace the pastiche pastoral entitled Les Fêtes de l’Amour et de Bacchus. The success of Cadmus et Hermione was helped by the presence of…