Scanderberg

Scanderberg is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue. La Serre wrote the words for its prologue and last act after the death of La Motte, who had started the libretto. The score was by François Rebel and François Francoeur (see seventeenth-century volume for La Serre, La Motte, Rebel, and Francoeur). It had its premiere on 27 October 1735 and ran for 33 performances before being dropped on 13 January 1736. After a prologue in which Melpomène asks L’Amour for assistance in recounting the…