Les Fêtes de l’Amour et de Bacchus

Les Fêtes de l’Amour et de Bacchus is a pastoral in three acts and a prologue that had its premiere at the Bel-Air tennis court on 15 March 1672. This work has the distinction of being the composition with which Lully started his career with the Royal Academy of Music. It was a pastiche of different dancing airs that the composer had already done for Benserade, Molière, and Quinault, but it proved popular enough to be revived in 1689, 1696, 1706, 1716, and 1738. The prologue to Les Fêtes de…