Pyrame et Thisbé

Pyrame et Thisbé is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue. Its musical score was the first work of collaboration by François Rebel and François Francoeur and its libretto was by Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre (see seventeenth-century volume for Rebel, Francoeur, and La Serre ). It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 17 October 1726, and its first run lasted until 26 December 1726. It continued into January 1727 and was heard by the duchess d’Orléans and her two daughters at its first…