Les Festes nouvelles

Les Festes nouvelles is a ballet in three acts and a prologue. Its musical score was by Duplessis cadet and its librettist was Massip . Le Journal de l’Opéra reports only one performance for it, its premiere on 22 July 1734. The prologue opens with Melpomène announcing to the people of Paris that she is leaving the capital for the summer, and she disappears into the sky. As in the case of other post-Lully lyric tragedies like Hippolyte et Aricie or post-Campra ballets like Les Sens, this…