Les Caractères de l’amour

Les Caractères de l’amour is an opéra-ballet in three entrées and a prologue with a score by Colin de Blamont and words by Antoine Ferrand, the abbé Pellegrin , and Alexandre Tannevot (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet and Pellegrin). Its three acts were entitled L’Amour volage, L’Amour jaloux, and L’Amour constant. The work had its premiere on 15 April 1738, and it enjoyed seven more representations during its first run lasting into 1739. It was revived for 21 additional billings…