Opéra-ballet

History#

The first work in the genre is generally held to be André Campra’s L’Europe galante (“Europe in Love”) of 1697, but Les Saisons of 1695 is often mentioned as the most distinctive prototype of this sort of composition Famous later examples are Les élémens (1721) by Destouches, Les Indes galantes (1735), and Les fêtes d’Hébé (1739) by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

References#

• Anthony, James R. (2001). “Opéra-ballet” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook). Also at Oxford Music Online (subscription required).
• Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C. (1992). “Opéra-ballet”, vol. 3, pp. 683–684, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 volumes, edited by Stanley Sadie. New York: Grove. . Also at Oxford Music Online (subscription required).
• Bellingham, Jane (2002). “opéra-ballet”, p. 862, in The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . Also at Oxford Music Online (subscription required).
• Pitou, Spire (1983). The Paris Opéra. An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers – Genesis and Glory, 1671-1715. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. .
• Warrack, John; West, Ewan (1992). The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .