Ariane

Ariane is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue. Mouret composed its musical score; La Grange and Roy collaborated on its libretto (see seventeenth-century volume for Mouret, La Grange , and Roy). The unpublished Le Journal de l’Opéra lists its premiere as 6 April 1717, but this document adds no other information about the date of its billings after its first representation. It was, therefore, probably never revived. The prologue of Ariane presents a Druid at the moment that he has picked…