Atys Plot Summary

Atys Performance History

• Title from title page 1708: ATYS / TRAGEDIE / MISE EN MUSIQUE;  1709: same; 1720: same.
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV 53
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: Ovid's Fasti
• Setting: Ancient Phrygia
• Premiere: St. Germain-en-Laye, court, January 10, 1676.
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1689
• Volumes (3) in the UNT Lully Collection: three 2nd eds.: de Baussen 1708,  de Baussen 1709, and Ballard 1720

For further reading on Atys, we suggest:

• Joyce Newman, Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Tragédies Lyriques, UMI Research Press, 1979. [UNT Call Number: ML 410 .L95 N5]
• Article on Lully's Atys by Mary Hunter in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (vol. 1, pp. 242-244). [UNT Call Number: ML102 .O6 N5 1992]
• Browne, Marilyn K. "Opera and the Galant Homme: Quinault' and Lully's Tragédie en musique, Atys, in the context of seventeenth-century Modernism." MM thesis, University of North Texas, 1994.
• L'avant-scène opéra, no. 94 (1987). Atys issue.
• McKenna, Ilene M.R. "Atys: Le petit drole qui faisait la Furie et la Nourrice," MM thesis, University of London, King's College, 1989.

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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