Le Triomphe de l'Amour Plot Summary and Performance History

• Title from title page: LE TRIOMPHE / DE / L'AMOUR / BALLET ROYAL, / MIS EN MUSIQVE
• Genre: ballet royal
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV 59
• Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687
• Librettist: Isaac de Benserade and Philippe Quinault, 1635-1688
• Libretto based on: Original Libretto
• Premiere: St. Germain-en-Laye, court, 21 January 1681
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1681
• Volumes (2) in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. ( Ballard 1681) and Hand-copied manuscript (undated)

For further reading on Le Triomphe de l'amour, we suggest:

• Brief entry on Lully's Le Triomphe de l'amour in The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Ballet (p. 421).
• Charles I. Silin. Benserade and his Ballets de Cour. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940. ["Extra Volume XV" of the Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages.]
  

See our Lully bibliography for more suggested reading.

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