Circé
Subtitle: tragedie ornee de machines, de changemens de théatre, & de musique
By: par T. Corneille
Contributors: Charpentier, Marc-Antoine, 1643-1704, composer; Donneau de Visé, Jean, 1638-1710, librettist; Promé, Pierre, active 1633-1677, bookseller; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Pierre Promé, sur le Quay des Grands Augustins, à la Charité
Published: 1675
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Circe (Greek mythology); Drama; Incidental music
Work titles: Circé
Notes: In 5 acts with prologue; without the incidental music by Charpentier; libretto by Corneille and Donneau de Visé; first performed 16 March 1675, at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel Guénégaud. Cf. CÉSAR online.

"Avec privilege dv roi."

"Le sujet de cette piece est tiré du 14. livre des Métamorphoses d'Ovide": "Argument," p. [3] (1st count).

"Argument": p. [3]-[4] (1st count).

"Extrait du privilege du roy": p. [5] (1st count).

"Actevrs dv prologve"; "Actevrs de la tragedie": p. [6] (1st count); neither includes performers.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials throughout.

Not in Sonneck.

Clément & Larousse. Dictionnaire des opéras, p. 243