Omphale

Omphale is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by André-Cardinal Destouches and a libretto by Houdard de La Motte. It was mounted for the king at Versailles on 27 February 1702 nearly four months after its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 10 November 1701. Its first run of 29 representations ended on 8 January 1702. It was revived in 1721 and 1733, and Mlle Pélissier (for Mlle Pélissier, see eighteenth-century volume) succeeded Mlle Moreau in the title-rôle on this latter…