French opera and ballet.

comprising the vocal parts for roles and individual airs including an "Arriette [from Lully's Proserpine], chantée par mde de pompadour", and "air ajouté dans Armide", notated without bass, in brown ink , on up to ten staves per page, with the names of the roles and titles indicated, with the text and some instrumental and vocal cues, in soprano, alto and treble clefs, including parts for opera-ballets by  Rameau (Zima, in Les Indes galantes, 1735; Sapho, and other roles in [Les fêtes d'Hébé, ou] Les talens lyriques), Destouches (Pomone, in Les éléments, 1721; Doris, in Issé, 1697), Collin de Blamont (4 roles in Les fetes grecques et romaines, 1723), Mondonville (Aurore and Pales in Titon et l'Aurore, 1751;  Le carnaval du Parnasse, 1749), Francoeur & Rebel (Zélindor, 1745; Ismène, 1747),  La Garde (Eglé), Campra (Les fêtes vénitiennes, 1710), and by Mouret (Le mariage de Ragonde, 1714; [Le triomphe] des sens, 1732) , 171 pages, 4to (c. 27 x 24cms), 10-stave paper, "Montgolfier" watermark, contemporary mottled calf, French provenance, eighteenth-century, a few leaves trimmed at head, old tears to covers

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There is a connection with the mistress of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour: several of the operas recorded here were staged in her private theatre, in addition to the "Ariette" described here as sung by her.