Les Caractères de la folie

Les Caractères de la folie is an opéra-ballet in three acts and a prologue with words by Charles Duclos and music by Bernard de Bury (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet). It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 20 August 1743. Also, each of these three acts was a separate entity and bore its own title: L’Astrologie (act I), Les Caprices de l’amour (act II), and Hylas et Zélis (act III). The third act, Hylas et Zélis, was separated from its matrix work to take its…