Apollon et Coronis

Apollon et Coronis was originally an entrée in Mouret’s Les Amours des dieux of 1727, but it was revived as a separate entity on 3 May 1781 with new music by Jean-Baptiste Rey and Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey and the previous libretto by Fuzelier (see seventeenth-century volume for Mouret and Fuzelier). It was given six times in all during its first run with Le Seigneur bienfaisant, and it was part of the program on 8 June 1781, when the opera house burned to the ground. The company revived it in…