Les fêtes d'Hébé

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Les fêtes d'Hébé (The Festivities of Hebe) is an opéra-ballet in a prologue and three entrées, composed in 1739 by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The libretto was written by Antoine Gautier de Montdorge and others. The work was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 21st May 1739.

Les fêtes d'Hébé, ou Les talents lyriques (The Festivities of Hebe, or The Lyric Talents) allows Hebe to arrange the celebration in Paris of poetry, music and dance, the romance of Alcaeus and Sappho, of Iphise and the legendary musician Tyrtaeus and of Aigle, nymph of Terpsichore, Muse of the dance, and Mercury.

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