Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chloé is a pastoral in three acts and a prologue with a score by Boismortier and words by Laujon . It had its premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 28 September 1747, and it enjoyed an unknown number of representations during the following October. It was revived in 1752 for a run of a dozen billings between 4 May and 4 June. The prologue presents Dryas singing of the glory of Pomone and Flore until L’Amour intrudes and refuses to obey Dryas’s order to leave, because Chloé has…