Phaëton Plot Summary

Phaëton Performance History

• Title from title page 1683 : PHAËTON, / TRAGEDIE / MISE / EN MUSIQUE; 1709: PHAËTON / TRAGEDIE / MISE EN MUSIQUE
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV61
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Setting:
• Premiere: Versailles, 6 January 1683
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1683
• Volumes (2)in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. (Ballard 1683) and 2nd ed. (H. de Baussen 1709)

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

• Joyce Newman, Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Tragédies Lyriques, UMI Research Press, 1979.

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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