Ariane et Bacchus

Not to be confused with Bacchus and Ariadne.

Ariane et Bacchus
Opera by Marin Marais
Librettist	Saint-Jean
Language	French
Based on	Myth of Ariadne, recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Premiere	8 March 1696 (1696-03-08) Académie Royale de Musiquel, Paris

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