Pyrrhus

Pyrrhus is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by Royer and a libretto by Fermelhuis or an unidentified poet signing his name as S.X. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 26 October 1730, but it was performed only seven times and never revived. The four female roles were sung by Mlles Erremans (Minerve), Pélissier (Polyxène), Petitpas (Ismène), and Antier (Eriphile) with Dun as Mars, Chassé de Chinais as Pyrrhus, and Tribou as Acamas (see seventeenth-century volume for…