Amadis de Gaule (La Borde and Berton)
Amadis de Gaule is an opera by the French composers Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Pierre Montan Berton, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 26 November 1771. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts. The opera is a new setting of a libretto by Philippe Quinault, originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1684.
Sources
- (French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, p.26.
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