Naïs
Published: 1749
Place of publication: S.l
Language: fre
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Operas
Work titles: Naïs
Notes: Series of four paginations.

Heroic pastorale in 3 acts with prologue.

Scribe unknown.

First performance in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique, 22 April 1749, on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Roles: Neptune, Palemon, Naïs, Telenus, Asterion, Tiresie, 2 Shepherds, Protée; prologue roles: Jupiter, Pluton, Neptune, Flore.

Scored for 2 volins, 2 violas, 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, timpani, muffled drum, basso continuo, musettes.

Rameau, Opera Omnia, IV.18

Rameau, Oeuvres Complètes, XVIII

Boston Public Library (Music Department) copy: lacking first two leaves.