Isis Plot Summary

Isis Performance History

• Title from manuscript title page: Isis / Tragedie / Mise en Musique and 1711 score title page
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV54
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Setting: Various mythological settings
• Premiere: St. Germain-en-Laye, court, 5 January 1677
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1719 (N.B. part books published 1677)
• Volumes (2) in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. (Ballard 1719) and hand-copied manuscript

For further reading on Isis, we suggest:

• C. Duggan, "Isis and the development of Lully's French style," MM thesis, University of Durham, 1986.
• Joyce Newman, Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Tragédies Lyriques, UMI Research Press, 1979.
• Article on Lully's Isis by Lois Rosow in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (vol. 2, p. 827).

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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