Le Temple de Gnide

Le Temple de Gnide is a pastoral in a single act with a libretto by Bellis and Roy that was set by Jean-Joseph Mouret (see seventeenth-century volume for Roy and Mouret). It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 14 September 1741, and it was given with Alcyone and an Italian cantata a few weeks later on 31 October 1741 (see seventeenth-century volume for Alcyone). It was then revived with La Fête de Diane on the last three days of Carnaval in 1742. Mlle Fel filled the part of…