Thesée Plot Summary

Thesée Performance History

• Title from title page 1688: and 1711: THÉSEE, / TRAGEDIE / MISE EN MUSIQUE
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV51
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Setting: Prologue: the palace of Versailles; Tragédie: various mythological places
• Premiere: St. Germain-en-Laye, court, January 11, 1675
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1688
• Volumes (3) in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. (Ballard, 1688), 2nd ed. (de Baussen 1711), and manuscript

For further reading on Thesée, we suggest:

• Joyce Newman, Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Tragédies Lyriques, UMI Research Press, 1979.
• Article on Lully's Thesée by Lois Rosow in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (vol. 4, p. 724).

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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