Pastorale héroïque

Pastorale héroïque is an opéra-ballet in a single act with music by Jean-Féry Rebel and words by La Serre (see seventeenth-century volume for Rebel and La Serre). It was staged at Court for the first time on 24 January 1730 to celebrate the birth of the dauphin and to honor the Spanish ambassadors. It was taken to Paris on 31 January 1730 to become part of a program featuring Hésione. It was returned to the stage of the Palais-Royal on 20 and 21 February as a companion piece to other short…