Isis
Subtitle: tragedie en musique, ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changements de theatre : representée devant Sa Maiesté à Saint Germain en Laye
Contributors: Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688, librettist; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection); Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1687
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Ballets; Librettos; Operas
Other titles: Isis (Choreographic work)
Work titles: Isis
Notes: In prologue and five acts; without the music by Jean Baptiste Lully; libretto by Quinault after Ovid, Metamorphoses; first performed 5 January 1677. Cf. Grove music online.

"Actevrs du prologue": p. [5]-[6]; "Actevrs da la tragedie": p. [13]-[14]; both include performers.

"Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris."

Place of publication from Schmidt.

Engraved frontispiece of an unidentified scene from the opera.

Includes printer's device, head- and tail-pieces.

Last p. blank.

Not in Sonneck.

Clément & Larousse. Dictionnaire des opéras, p. 588

Schmidt, C.B. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC5-11

Schmidt, C.B. Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC5-11