Fragments nouveaux

Fragments nouveaux is a spectacle coupé program in three acts, consisting of the prologue of Les Amours des dieux with music by Mouret (for Mouret, see seventeenth-century volume), Théonis ou le toucher with a score by Pierre-Montan Berton and Trial, and Amphion set by La Borde. This tripartite work was billed initially at the Opéra on 11 October 1767. Mme Marie-Jeanne Larrivée and her husband, Henri Larrivée , along with Sophie Arnould headed the cast assembled for the world premiere of this…