Les Sauvages

Les Sauvages was offered to the public as a new entrée for Les Indes galantes with words by Fuzelier and music by Rameau (see seventeenth-century volume for Fuzelier). Audiences heard it for the first time on 10 March 1736, and it was well received as a worthy addition to its popular matrix work. It was still used as an integral part of Rameau’s composition in 1762, 1773, 1952, and 1961. The original cast of 1736 included Mlle Pélissier as Zima with Jélyotte as Damon and Dun as Don Alvar…