Thesée
Subtitle: tragedie en musique : ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changements de theatre : representée devant Sa Majesté à Saint Germain en Lay, le onziéme jour de ianvier 1675
Contributors: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; Ballard, Christophe, 1641-1715, printer; 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)
Publisher: Par Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du Roy, pour la musique, ruë Saint Jean de Beauvais au Mont Parnasse
Published: 1675
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Notes: Libretto for an opera (tragédie) in 5 acts with prologue.

Text by P. Quinault, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; music by J.B. Lully; first performed at Saint Germain-en-Laye, 11 (15?) January 1675 (sources differ). See Grove music online (WWW site, 21 September 2009).

Contains the second version of the prologue, with first line of text: "Les Ieux & les Amours."

Signatures: A-K⁴ L²

"Acteurs du prologue": p. [2]; "Acteurs de la tragedie": p. [11]-[12], without cast list.

Schmidt, C.B. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC3-3.3