Les Amours des déesses

Les Amours des déesses is a heroic ballet in three acts and a prologue with music by Jean-Baptiste Quinault and a libretto by Fuzelier (see seventeenth-century volume for Quinault and Fuzelier). It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 9 August 1729, and Le Journal de l’Opéra records that it was performed until 30 August 1729, when Tancrède was revived (see seventeenth-century volume for Tancrède). The entrée entitled L’Aurore et Céphale was added as a fourth act on 25 August 1729. This…