Les Amours de Ragonde

Les Amours de Ragonde, also known as Le Mariage de Ragonde et de Colin, was described as a lyric comedy, a comedy in music, a divertissement in music, or an opera. Its score was the work of Mouret, and its libretto was by Philippe Destouches (see seventeenth-century volume for Mouret). It had been composed as an impromptu in 1714 for performance before the duchess du Maine at Sceaux, but it did not have its Paris premiere until 30 January 1742. After two representations in March 1743, it was…