Le rival favorable
Subtitle: entrée ajoûté aux Fêtes d'Euterpe, en place de celle de la Coquette trompé
By: Les paroles de cet acte sont de Monsieur Brunet ; la musique est de Monsieur Dauvergne, Maître de la musique de la chambre du Roi
Contributors: Brunet, Pierre Nicolas, 1733-1771, librettist; Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, dancer; Vestris, Teresina, 1726-1808, dancer; Lany, Jean Barthélemy, 1718-1786, dancer; Lany, Jean Barthélemy, 1718-1786, dancer; Laval, Antoine Bandiéri de, 1688-1767, choreographer; Opéra de Paris; Comédie-Italienne (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1758
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Ballets; Librettos
Other titles: Fêtes d'Euterpe (Choreographic work)
Work titles: Fêtes d'Euterpe. Rival favorable
Notes: Libretto for an alternative entrée for the third entrée (titled Coquette trompée) of Dauvergne's ballet, Fêtes d'Euterpe.

Performed at L'Opéra, Paris, 8 August 1758, as a fourth entrée (See Lajarte, Theodore. Bibliothèque musicale du Théatre de l'Opéra, v. 1, p. 239); subsequently at Comédie-Italienne, Paris, 14 April 1760 (see Grove music online, WWW site, 26 January 2010).

Choreographer unknown, although it may have been Antoine Bandiéri de Laval, or his son Michel Jean Bandiéri de Laval, who choreographed and danced at l'Opéra at that time.

Signatures: A⁴ B².

Actors and dancers with named cast (p. 2); principal dancers listed are Mr. Lany, Mlle. Lany, Mr. Vestris, and Mlle. Vestris.