Isis

Isis was the fifth work created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault in collaboration. It was presented as a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue and was mounted initially before the king at Saint-Germain en Laye on 5 January 1677 before being performed at the Palais-Royal in August of the same year. The prologue of Isis is more like a classic frieze than a production for the stage as far as the characters and their disposition upon the scene are concerned: the setting is laid in…