Les Peines et les plaisirs de l’amour

Les Peines et les plaisirs de l’amour is the second operatic work staged in Paris under the egis of the Academy of Opera at the Jeu de paume de la Bouteille. Cambert was the author of the musical score for this composition in five acts, and Gilbert was its librettist. The precise date of the premiere of this pastoral is uncertain, but accounts agree generally that it was performed initially in February or March 1672. Pomone had been based upon the love of two gods for a goddess, but Gabriel…