Polyxène

Polyxène is a lyric tragedy in five acts with a libretto by Joliveau and a score by Dauvergne. It was given its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 11 January 1763, and it went on to enjoy another 17 performances this same year. Its 18th and last representation took place on 6 April 1763, the date of the fire that destroyed the Palais-Royal and forced the company into temporary quarters in the Tuileries (see seventeenth-century volume for Tuileries). The curtain rises with Télèphe asking Pyrrhus…