Jupiter's Thunderbolt Lully's Phaéton - enjoyed by ROBERT ANDERSON '... brimful of the most varied enchantments.'

This composer began his career as a musical kitchen boy. By means of ambition and effrontery, at twenty he managed so to enchant the young Louis XIV at the beginning of his teens that he became virtual dictator of all French music. The Sun King found him indispensable. Phaethon, subject of this opera, was mythologically the son of Apollo, god of the sun...

JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY

PARIS

FRANCE