Les Surprises de l’amour

Les Surprises de l’amour was billed as a ballet composed of three different acts with music for all three entrées by Rameau . Pierre-Joseph Bernard did the poems of the first two acts; Marmontel wrote the libretto for the concluding section. It was staged in its first form at Versailles in the Théâtre des Petits Appartements during November 1748; it had its Paris premiere at the Opéra in changed form on 31 May 1757. It first run lasted until 14 August 1757, but only its second and third acts…