Les Festes vénitiennes

Les Festes vénitiennes is an opéra-ballet in three entrées and a prologue with music by André Campra and words by Antoine Danchet. This work was a welcome relief for Parisians who were tiring of the same operatic fare consisting of lyric tragedies cast invariably in the mould created by Lully and Quinault. It proved incredibly popular, therefore, and it perpetuated itself to the point where new entrées were written to replace the acts that seemed to be losing their appeal. When it was given for…