Médée

Médée is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with a musical score by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and a libretto by Thomas Corneille. It has been described as the most significant work produced at the Palais-Royal in the years immediately after the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Titon du Tillet designated it as a great success, but Le Journal de l’Opéra lists no revivals for this work which seems to have had its only run from its premiere on 4 December 1693 until Céphale et Procris was given…