Anacréon

Anacréon is a heroic ballet in a single act that was incorporated into Les Surprises de l’amour for its first representation at the Royal Academy of Music on 31 May 1757. Gentil-Bernard did its scenario, and Rameau created its score. Anacréon was produced next on 8 August 1769 in a spectacle coupé program also presenting La Provençale from Les Festes de Thalie (for Les Festes de Thalie, see seventeenth-century volume) and Hippoméne et Atalante, a new act by Brunet-Debaines and Vachon . This…