Renaud

Renaud sometimes designated as La Suite d’Armide, is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by Henri Desmarets and a libretto by the abbé Simon-Joseph de Pellegrin using the name of his brother (see seventeenth-century volume for Desmarets and abbé Pellegrin ). The public did not take kindly to this work, which had its premiere on 5 March 1722 only to disappear completely from the repertory before the end of the month. The prologue of Renaud is set in the Tuileries, where…