Les Festes d’Hébé

Les Festes d’Hébé is an opéra-ballet in three entrées and a prologue with a score by Rameau and a libretto by Gautier de Mondorge and his still unidentified collaborators (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet). It had its world premiere in Paris on 21 May 1739, and its flawless score assured its continuing popularity. After its first representation, it was given uninterruptedly on 59 consecutive programs until 1 September 1739. It was then revived for the last three weeks of the year…