Le Prix de la valeur

Le Prix de la valeur was billed as a heroic ballet in a single act with music by Dauvergne and words by Joliveau . The work had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 4 October 1771 as the third portion of a program that included L’Air, one of the entrées from Roy’s Les Eléments, and La Sibylle, an act from Les Festes d’Euterpe (see seventeenth-century volume for Roy). It was mounted on 24 consecutive theatre days between 4 October and 24 November 1771, but it was given only on 28…