Le Triomphe de l’Amour

Le Triomphe de l’Amour is a ballet in twenty entrées with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, a libretto by Philippe Quinault, and choreography by Isaac de Benserade. It was danced for the first time on 21 January 1681 at Saint-Germain en Laye after two postponements caused by the illness of the dauphin. Louis XIV commissioned the work to please the dauphine, who was fond of music and dancing. The king himself had lost some of his active interest in the dance, and the return of the royal ballet to…