Les Sens

Les Sens is an opéra-ballet in five entrées and a prologue for which Mouret composed the score. Roy was its librettist (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet, Mouret, and Roy). It was called variously Le Triomphe des sens or Le Ballet des sens before becoming known simply as Les Sens. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 5 June 1732, and Le Journal de l’Opéra reveals that it was still being billed in July and August of this same year. It was popular enough to inspire a parody by…