Les Voyages de l’amour

Les Voyages de l’amour is an opéra-ballet in four acts and a prologue with music by Boismortier and a libretto by Le Clerc de La Bruère (see seventeenth-century volume for opéra-ballet). It was not supported for long by the public after its premiere on 3 May 1736. Its librettist tried to rescue it from failure by writing a new second act for it on 4 June 1736, but this effort proved fruitless, and a new third act was never performed. Jélyotte starred in the work as L’Amour, the one character to…