Méduse

Méduse is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue. Its musical score was the work of Charles-Hubert Gervais, and its libretto was by the abbé Claude Boyer. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 13 January 1697, and its first run may have extended into the middle of March of the same year. It was dropped permanently before 17 March 1697. Le Journal de l’Opéra does not mention a revival of Méduse after the premiere of Vénus et Adonis on this date. The prologue of Méduse provides a…