La princesse de Navarre

La princesse de Navarre opened the wedding festivities, while another new Rameau opera, Platée, closed them.

The piece takes the form of a comédie-ballet, effectively a play with a large amount of incidental music, recalling the collaborations of Molière and Lully in the 17th century.

[2] Little of it has much bearing on the main action of the drama which concerns the complicated love life of the eponymous mediaeval princess.

Voltaire complained about the acoustics of the hall in which it was staged claiming "the ceiling was so high that the actors appeared pygmies and they couldn't be heard".

[6] Source: Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Théatre, ninth tome, Société Littéraire-typographique, 1784 (digitalized by Google) (accessed 21 October 2010) Fifteen women and twenty-five men Don Pedro, King of Castile, has taken captive Constance, Princess of Navarre.