L’Opera de Société

L’Opera de Société is a comedy-ballet in a single act with a score by François-Joseph Giraud and a libretto by Gauthier de Mondorge . It was given its world premiere at the Opéra on 1 October 1762, and it was paired on five programs with Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Acis et Galathée during its first run between 1 and 10 October 1762 (for Lully and Acis et Galathée, see seventeenth-century volume). It was then incorporated with Hylas et Zélis of Les Caractères de la folie and Alphée et Aréthuse of Les…