Ismène

Ismène , an heroic pastoral in a single act, had a score by François Rebel and François Francoeur set to a libretto by Moncrif (see seventeenth-century volume for Rebel and Francoeur). It was staged initially at Versailles in December 1747, and its first Paris performance at the Opéra took place on 28 August 1750, when it was offered as the second entrée in the fragments given on this date. The authors of its music were superintendents of the king’s music as well as inspectors of the Royal…