Les Ages

Les Ages is an opéra-ballet in three entrées and a prologue for which André Campra wrote the music, and Louis Fuzilier did the libretto (for opéraballet, Campra and Fuzilier, see seventeenth-century volume). It was quite successful at the Palais-Royal and enjoyed 29 performances between its premiere on 9 October 1718 and 6 December 1718. It was revived on 10 October 1724. Mlle Marie Antier created the roles of Vénus and Silvanire, while Mlle Poussin did Hébé and Lucinde (for Mlles Antier and…