Ariane et Bacchus

Ariane et Bacchus (Ariadne and Bacchus) is an opera by Marin Marais first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 8 March 1696. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts and a prologue. The libretto by Saint-Jean is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses and deals with the legend of Ariadne.

Sources

(in French) Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881

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