Le Caprice d’Erato

Le Caprice d’Erato was offered as a divertissement in a single act and a prologue with a scenario by Fuzelier and music by François Colin de Blamont (for Fuzelier, see seventeenth-century volume). It had its world premiere at the Opéra on 8 October 1730 in a program designed to celebrate the birth of the dauphin. The vocalists selected to head the cast at this command performance included Mlle Antier as Minerve and Mlle Le Maure as Erato with Chassé de Chinais as Apollon (for Mlle Antier, see…