Proserpine
Subtitle: tragedie en musique, ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changements de theatre : representée devant Sa Majesté à Saint Germain en Laye
Contributors: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; 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: s.n.]
Published: 1683
Place of publication: Suivant la copie imprimée, a Paris [Amsterdam?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Notes: Libretto for an opera in 5 acts with prologue; text by P. Quinault, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; music by Jean Baptiste Lully; first performed at Saint Germain-en-Laye, 3 February 1680. See Grove music online (WWW site, 19 January 2010).

Published by A. Wolfgang or A. Schelte?

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

Last 3 pages are blank.

Engraved frontispiece.

Signatures: A-C¹² (A³ missigned as A²; C12 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" with named cast.

Schmidt, C. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques, LLC 8-8