Les âges


Les âges or Le ballet des âges is an opéra-ballet in a prologue and three acts by the French composer André Campra. The libretto is by Louis Fuzelier. It was first performed by the Académie royale de musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 9 October 1718.
The three acts were entitled:
  1. La jeunesse ou L'amour ingénu
  2. L'âge viril ou L'amour coquet
  3. La vieillesse ou L'amour enjoué
The 1718 printed score includes a further act entitled Les âges rivaux, which is numbered as the third entrée, while La vieillesse ou L'amour enjoué is turned into the fourth entrée.

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