Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour

The work was first performed on March 15, 1747, at the La Grande Ecurie, Versailles, and is set to a libretto by Louis de Cahusac.

The opera was originally composed as part of the celebrations for the Dauphin’s marriage to Maria Josepha of Saxony.

Les fêtes de l’Hymen proved to be a popular work and by the March 1776 it had been performed exactly 106 times.

Mirrine, a wild Amazon, tells her queen, Orthésie, that she objects to the arrival of Osiris in their realm and urges war against him.

The Egyptians celebrate the festival of the water god Canopus by the banks of the River Nile.

As the high priest's knife is about to strike Memphis, Canopus intervenes and makes the Nile flood.