Phèdre

Phèdre was billed as an opera in three acts with music by Lemoyne and a libretto by Hoffmann . It had its world premiere at Fontainebleau on 26 October 1786 and its first representation in Paris on 21 November 1786 at the Royal Academy of Music. It was mounted at the Opéra on 53 occasions between 1786 and 1792. Coincidentally, Jean-Baptiste Racine’s Phèdre was performed at the Opéra on 11 July 1795 in a benefit program for the great actress Dumesnil , but Lemoyne’s composition was not revived…