Orion

Orion is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by La Coste and a libretto by Joseph de La Font and Simon-Joseph de Pellegrin (see seventeenth-century volume for La Coste and Pellegrin ). La Font had died in 1725, and Pellegrin was obliged to do the prologue and make certain revisions. The work was not very popular and was never revived after its first run of only two weeks beginning on 19 February 1728. Tribou sang the title role and Mlle Antier did the parts of Minerve and…