Acis et Galatée
Subtitle: pastorale heroique en musique : representée pour la premiere fois dans le Château d'Anet devant Monseigneur le D'auphin, par l'Academie royale de musique
Contributors: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Château d'Anet (Anet, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1690
Place of publication: Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris [Amsterdam?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Acis et Galatée
Notes: Libretto for an opera (pastorale héroïque) in 3 acts with prologue.

Text by J.G. de Campistron, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; music by J.B. Lully (LWV 73); first performed at Anet, 6 September 1686. See Grove music online (WWW site, 21 January 2010).

Published by A. Wolfgang?

Signatures: A¹² B⁶ (A4 missigned A3; B6 blank).

Lists of "Acteurs" without performers: p. [2], 6.

Not listed in Schmidt, C. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques.

May have been in honor of Louis, the Grand Dauphin (1661-1711), on the birth of his son Charles, Duke of Berry (1686-1714).