Amadis Plot Summary

Amadis Performance History

• Title from title page: AMADIS / TRAGEDIE / EN MUSIQUE
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV63
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: after Montalvo, adapted by N. Herberay des Essarts, Amadis de Gaulle
• Setting:
• Premiere: Paris, Palais Royale , 18 January 1684
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1684
• Volume in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. (Ballard 1684)

For further reading about Lully's Amadis, we suggest:

• Joyce Newman, Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Tragédies Lyriques, UMI Research Press, 1979.
• Margaret Seares. "The French classical tradition of music as seen in a comparison of Lully's Amadis and Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie," MA dissertation, University of Western Australia, 1973.

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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