Armide
Subtitle: tragedie en musique : representée par l'Académie royale de musique
Contributors: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595; Opéra de Paris; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1686
Place of publication: Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris [Amsterdam?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Notes: Libretto for an opera in 5 acts with prologue.

Text by P. Quinault, based on T. Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata; music by J.B. Lully; first performed at l'Opéra, Paris, 15 February 1686. See Grove music online (WWW site, 20 January 2010).

Published by A. Wolfgang or A. Schelte?

In the imprint, date is printed with second and third "c"s turned.

Engraved frontispiece.

Page [1] (2nd group) is blank.

Signatures: A-B¹² C⁶ (C6 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 "personnages" without named cast.

Schmidt, C. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques, LLC 13-2