Oedipe à Thèbes

Oedipe à Thèbes is a lyric tragedy in three acts with music by Jean-Nicolas Le Froid de Méreaux and a libretto by count Duprat de la Touloubre . It was called Jocaste et Oedipe, Oedipe et Jocaste, or simply Jocaste before its ultimate title was chosen. It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 30 December 1791, and the public greeted it with enthusiasm at first, but it had to be dropped after its seventh billing on 27 April 1792. The scene of the tragedy is set at Thebes before…