Roland Plot Summary

Roland Performance History

• Title from title page 1685: ROLAND, / TRAGEDIE / MISE / EN MUSIQUE. and 1709: ROLAND / TRAGEDIE / MISE EN MUSIQUE
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV65
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: Ludovico Ariosto's romantic epic Orlando furioso
• Setting: Medieval Cathay
• Premiere: Versailles, court, 8 January 1685
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1685
• Volumes (2) in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. (Ballard 1685); and 2nd ed. (de Baussen 1709)

For further reading on Roland, we suggest:

• Joyce Newman, Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Tragédies Lyriques, UMI Research Press, 1979.
• Article on Lully's Roland by Lois Rosow in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (vol. 4, pp. 9-10).

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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