Pirithous

Pirithous is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by Mouret and a libretto probably started by Seguineau and completed by Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre with the help of the abbé Simon-Joseph de Pellegrin (see seventeenth-century volume for Mouret , La Serre , and Pellegrin ). It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 26 January 1723, and its first run lasted until the first week in March. It was posted again for 27 April and 14 October of this same year, and a 1734 revival is…