Zélindor, roi des sylphes

Zélindor, roi des sylphes had its world premiere before royalty at Versailles on 17 March 1745. This work, with a score by François Rebel and François Francoeur and a libretto by Paradis de Moncrif , had a second representation at Court before being taken to the Paris stage on 10 August 1745 (see seventeenth-century volume for Rebel and Francoeur). It was mounted to celebrate the victory of Fontenoy, and its brevity encouraged its incorporation into the fragments that constituted so many…