Endymion

Endymion is a heroic pastoral in five acts and a prologue that the authors decided to drop “on account of the season” in which the work was given. The score was by Blamont , and the libretto was done by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (see seventeenth-century volume for Fontenelle). It had its premiere on 17 May 1731, and Le Journal de Paris reports that it did not survive beyond 29 May 1731. It was never revived. Pan’s companions urge him to forget disdainful Diane at the opening of the…