Les Festes d’Euterpe

Les Festes d’Euterpe is an opéra-ballet in three entrées for which Dauvergne provided the score. Its original three acts were the work of three dramatists: Moncrif wrote the libretto for La Sibylle (act 1); Danchet did the words for Alphée et Aréthuse (act 2); and Favart supplied the scenario for La Coquette trompée (act 3) (for opéra-ballet and Danchet , see seventeenth-century volume). The work had its premiere in this form on 8 August 1758, and it ran for thirteen performances without…