La Reine des Peris

La Reine des Peris followed the example of Les Festes grecques et romaines in luring spectators into the Palais-Royal with a promise of novelty. It was billed as a “Persian Comedy” in five acts and a prologue with a libretto by Louis Fuzelier and a musical score by Jacques Aubert (see seventeenth-century volume for Fuzelier). It was not very successful, however, and it was never revived after its first run extending from 10 April to 4 May 1725. The prologue presents Amphitrite summoning the…