Le Temple de la paix

Le Temple de la paix is the only opéra-ballet that Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault created for the Royal Academy of Music, although they had already contributed the straight ballet entitled Le Triomphe de l’Amour to the repertory. Le Temple de la paix was mounted for the first time at Fontainebleau on 20 October 1685, and Louis XIV attended its premiere to watch the members of his Court perform in it. It was taken to Paris in November 1685, but it was never revived in the capital…