L’Empire de l’amour

L’Empire de l’amour is a heroic ballet in three acts and a prologue with music by the marquis de Brassac and a libretto by Paradis de Moncrif. It had its premiere on 14 April 1733 and was the last new work mounted at the Palais-Royal before the staging of Rameau’s first composition there. The work was well enough received to induce its librettist to make numerous revisions in it, and he was prompted to speak of these changes in a long letter published in the Mercure de France of April 1733. It…