L’Année galante

L’Année galante is an opéra-ballet in four acts and a prologue with a libretto by Pierre-Charles Roy and a score by Jean-Jacques-Henri Mion (for opéra-ballet and Roy, see seventeenth-century volume). It was dedicated to the king and written in honor of the dauphin’s second marriage, and it comes as no surprise that it had its world premiere at Versailles in February 1747. The Royal Academy of Music staged it in Paris for the first time on 11 April 1747. The work was divided into four sections…