Médée et Jason

Médée et Jason is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with a musical score by Salomon and a libretto by abbé Simon-Joseph de Pellegrin and Antoine de La Roque. It was popular and its prologue appealed strongly to patriotic audiences already aroused by the victory of Denain in the war of the Spanish succession. It was mounted 30 times between its premiere on 24 April and 20 June 1713. It was then withdrawn for revisions and returned to the stage of the Palais-Royal for another 17…