Les Sauvages

Les Sauvages is a divertissement created by Maximilien and Pierre-Gabriel Gardel , and it is not to be confused with the entrée by the same title that was added to Les Indes galantes on 10 March 1736. The composition by the Gardels had its world premiere at the Opéra in Paris on 31 October 1786, and it was produced next in this same theatre on 7 November 1786. It was then dropped and not revived until 15 December 1789, when it appeared on a program with Nephté that returned the unimpressive sum…