Biblis

Biblis is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue for which La Coste wrote the music (see seventeenth-century volume for La Coste ). Fleury did its libretto. The incomplete Le Journal de l’Opéra indicates the date of November 1732 for its premiere at the Palais-Royal, but this document does not list its subsequent performances. Lajarte lists six performances for it (I, 153). It was never revived although it enjoyed the talents of Mlles Le Maure (Irmène) and Pélissier (Biblis) opposite…