Phaëton
Subtitle: tragedie en musique : representée par l'Academie royale de musique, devant Sa Majesté à Versailles, le sixiéme jour de janvier mil six cens quatre-vingts-trois
Contributors: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; Schoonebeek, Adriaan, 1657 or 1658-1705, engraver; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Château de Versailles (Versailles, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1683
Place of publication: Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris [Amsterdam?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Phaethon (Greek mythology); Drama
Notes: Libretto for an opera in 5 acts with prologue.

Text by P. Quinault, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; music by J.B. Lully; first performed at Versailles, 8/9 January 1683. See Grove music online (WWW site, 20 January 2010).

Published by A. Wolfgang or A. Schelte?

In the imprint, date is printed with first and third "C"s turned.

Engraved frontispiece, signed, "Schoonebeek."

Signatures: A-B¹² C⁶ (C6 blank).

May have been published in a collection titled, Recueil des opera, des balets, & des plus belles pieces en musique; Houghton Theatre Collection copy lacks collective title page.

Includes lists of "Acteurs" without named cast.

Schmidt, C. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques, LLC 10-4