Roland

Roland is the tenth opera in five acts created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault. It had its world premiere in the Riding School at Versailles on 8 January 1685 before the king, and, like Phaéton, it was produced without machines on this occasion, not a difficult task for the stage production engineer Carlo Vigarani, since only the fifth act required mechanical devices for its staging. In all, the work was performed eight times at Court by 3 March 1685. Two of these performances were…