This work doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?
Subjects
People
Places
Times
Book Details
Edition Notes
Libretto, with descriptions of the event, for days 1-3 of a court entertainment titled Les plaisirs de l'île enchantée.
Laudatory verses recited on day 1 by I. Benserade; text of Princesse d'Élide, performed on day 2, by Molière; music (not printed here) for the ballet, Palais d'Alcine, performed on day 3, by J.B. Lully; See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWW site, 3 June 2009), M.-F. Christout, Le ballet de cour de Louis XIV, 1643-1672, p. 111-112, 138, 265; and C. I. Silin, Benserade and his ballets de cour.
The entire festival was performed at Versailles, 7-13 May 1664.
Signatures: A-D¹² E⁶.
Acteurs and singers named throughout text for the 1st day festivities; "Noms des Acteurs de la Comedie": p. 30, includes performers for La Princesse d'Elide; dancers for the ballet, Le Palais d'Alcine, named throughout the scenario on p. 100-102.