Title page of "Cadmus et Hermione" (the first French opera) by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Cadmus and Hermione, TRAGEDY SET TO MUSIC by Monsieur DE LULLY, Esquire-Adviser-Secretary of the King, House, and Crown of France and its Finances, and Superintendent of Music of Her Majesty; PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME before the King at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the Year 1674. General EDITION, printed for the first time AT THE PUBLISHING HOUSE of J. B. Christophe Ballard, sole Music Printer for the King, in Paris, rue Saint Jean de Beauvais, in Mont-Parnasse. 1917. With the Permission of Her Majesty.